Polar ice sheets
A review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14434822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G De Q Robin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 100 |
| Pages | 5-22 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polar Record (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0032247400062380 |
| OpenAlex | W2168809683 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
At the present time, only Antarctica and Greenland carry ice sheets comparable with the ice sheets that covered vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere as recently as 20 000 years ago. At the time of maximum glaciation, some 300 000 years ago, the volume of ice on earth was three times what it is today, and it covered the northern parts of continents all around the Arctic Ocean. In North America, ice stretched south as far as Kansas; in Europe, it extended down ot the River Thames and the Sudety mountains and covered much of Siberia. Even now, the Antarctic ice sheet covers an area of 12 million km 2 and in places reaches depths of more than 4 km. The smaller Greenland ice sheet has an area of 1.8 million km 2 and exceeds 3 km in depth
Antarctic sea ice · Arctic · Arctic ice pack · Climatology · Cryosphere · Geography · Glacial period · Greenland ice sheet · Ice sheet · Northern Hemisphere · Physical geography · Sea ice · The arctic · Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics · Cryospheric studies and observations · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Paleontology
| Citations per year | 0.06 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1972 - 2008 (37) |
| Highly cited | No |