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Definition of Icecaps
1. icecap [n] - See also: icecap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Icecaps
Literary usage of Icecaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Freshwater Supply: States’ Views of How Federal Agencies Could Help Them by Barry T. Hill (2006)
"Another 2 percent is locked away in glaciers and icecaps, virtually inaccessible
for human use. Figure 1: Water Sources, Volumes, and Percentages of Total ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"... with a belt of country some sixty miles wide between the northern and southern
icecaps. In March, 1884. Sergeant Long, while hunting, looked from the ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... extremities of the earth in former ages, and would perhaps give us some ideas
as to the date at which the icecaps that now covered them originated. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1880)
"These icecaps appear to me to be formed by the excessive snowfall during the
year, which, never wholly melting, is in process of time converted by pressure ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"... long lateral valley of Huaylas, in Peru, his experiences in the lofty highlands
and on the icecaps, and his attempted ascent of a virgin Andean peak. ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"The northern and southern parts of Grinnell Land appear to be covered with icecaps,
between which is a belt of open country some sixty miles wide. ..."
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