icefield

• “But there was a much greater quantity of ice this year, and on the 17th of July, the expedition fell in with an "icefield" of such extent that it took thirteen days to coast along it.”

  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World

• “That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.”

  The “tulip bubble”: not so bubbly? (and, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”) | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"

• “When Helliconia is furthest from Freyr, the planet becomes a frozen icefield, whilst at its closest the entire planet is baked in heat and the equatorial belt becomes uninhabitable.”

  Brian Aldiss' HELLICONIA returning to print

• “I also liked the north-pole icefield electro-chunter of 'Glitter Freeze', guest-starring Mark E Smith.”

  Gorillaz, Plastic Beach (2010)

• “The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great shimmering icefield, with the heads of the distant tors as rocks borne upon its surface.”

  Fictionaut: The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars

• “From the same icefield, another major glacier spilling into Chile has grown 60% in volume.”

  Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives

• “The Upsala glacier and six other glaciers descend from the South Andean icefield into the lake.”

  Sound Politics: Faith-based initiatives

• “According to Spy, the Boy's contented expression, as he hacked across a Norwegian icefield flanked by huskies, belied a deeper unease.”

  Role models

• “When they drill ice core holes, do they drill multiple holes in a line from a the perimeter of an icefield to the approximate center of such a field to plot for any missing levels towards the outer edge to track if the ice had ever receded back past the current perimeter exposed and at what level, thus geological time to see how far ice retreats with added warmth?”

  The Mysterious Taylor Dome Borehole « Climate Audit

• “I'm not a climate scientist I read Chemistry but I know this..... if I had been standing here in the English midlands 10,000 years ago, I would have been standing on an icefield up to two miles thick.”

  Tim Yeo Cruel Victim of Green Practical Joke

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