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2.66946 x 1015 metric tons

Put another way, it weighs the same as 27,085,538,493 U.S. Naval aircraft carriers

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Area is 1.785 x 106 km2 (82% of Greenland)

Volume is 2.931 x 106 km3

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There isn't really anything anyone can do about fixing the Greenland Ice Sheet, climate changes is what caused it to melt.

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The Greenland ice sheet has an average depth of 5,000 feet. This is a relatively new discovery.

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Why most of Greenland is covered with snow?

The Greenland ice sheet covers about 80 percent of Greenland! It's the second-biggest ice sheet in the world, after Antarctica


Which countries are covered in ice all year?

Greenland is mostly covered by an ice sheet.


What percentage of land is covered by ice in Greenland?

The Greenland ice sheet covers 80 percent of the total area of land in Greenland. It is the largest island in the world.


Is the North Pole is in Greenland?

No, it is not in Greenland. The North Pole is a point on the Arctic ice sheet


The ice sheet is approximately 1500 meters thick in the Arctic or Antarctica?

The ice sheet exceeds 1500 meters in both of these ice sheets, with the Arctic ice sheet referring to the Greenland Ice Sheet.


Where is the world's second largest continental ice sheet?

Greenland


What animal is threaten by the melting of the Greenland ice sheet?

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Is Greenland a mountain?

Yes, Greenland is frozen so it has many glacier's (This is a response from the jdDictionary)


Is Greenland mostly covered by a continental ice sheet?

No it does not. Antarctica The term Continental Ice Sheet is given to a glacier that is over 20,000 mi2 (50,000km2 ). As the Greenland Ice Sheet is 660,235 mi2 (1,710,00km2), this puts it well into Continental Ice Sheet size bracket. So even though it is on an island, it's size gives it the right to be classed as a Continental Ice Sheet.


What is an ice sheet?

The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. The Greenland ice sheet occupies about 82% of the surface of Greenland, and if melted would cause sea levels to rise by 7.2 metres. Estimated changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres (57.3 cubic miles) per year. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or glaciers. Masses of ice covering less than 50,000 square kilometers are termed an ice cap. An ice cap will typically feed a series of glaciers around its periphery.


Is Greenland full of ice or land?

The total area of Greenland is 2,166,086 km2 (836,330 sq mi), of which the Greenland ice sheet covers 1,755,637 km2 (677,855 sq mi), which works out at roughly 81% of the area of Greenland.


What type of ice sheet is covering Greenland?

It is a fresh water glacier, which because of it's size it can be classed as a Continental Ice Sheet even though it is on an island. That would be called land ice. In the case of Greenland, because of its size, it qualifies as an ice sheet (50,000 square kilometers or greater). As it is the case with all land ice, when it melts, it rises sea levels.