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The maximum thickness of ice in the Antarctic ice sheet is 15,670 feet. It averages 7,300 feet on the eastern side and 4,285 feet on the western side.
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What is the very thick layer of ice found in the Greenland and Antarctica?
They are the Polar Ice Caps and they are not as thick as they used to be.
What is the name of a ship that can make a path through the thick pack ice of Antarctica?
An ice-breaker.
What percent of Antarctica is covered in thick ice?
98% of the land is covered with a continental ice sheet.
What do people in antarctica use to not crack ice?
Generally, the ice in Antarctica is several feed thick. Otherwise, on freshly formed ice, people step carefully so as not to crack the ice.
What compound does this use Antarctica has a thick ice cover and the highest average elevation of all the continents?
Antarctica has thick ice cover and the highest average elevation of all the continents because of its location on the south pole.
Broad thick sheets of ice that are common in antarctica and Greenland?
Continental glaciers.
What are the agricultural products in Antarctica?
Antartica has no agriculture, the ground is covered with thick layers of ice.
What do people use to measure how thick the ice in Antarctica?
The tools used include laser and ice-penetrating radar and the discipline of radar interferometry.
What environment is Antarctica?
The Antarctic continent is a land mass covered with ice up to 13,000ft (4km) thick
Is the land covered by ice in Antarctica a sunken continent?
Some of Antarctica is below sea level, notably the continent beneath the South Pole. The ice is nearly two miles thick and the base of the ice could be below sea level.
Where is the thickest ice in the world?
My mum said it was 'Greater Antarctica' but I don't know. Search the Internet if your not sure. You should know the answers anyway.
What is Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called ice caps or?
Thick sheets of ice that can cover large areas of a continent are called continental glaciers or ice caps. Examples of continental glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland The ice sheets that form in these two locations are up to 3500 meters thick. thank you a lot
