Ice sheet

In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than lk=off. The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered much of North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America.

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#1	Utrecht University Netherlands	#1	Utrecht University Netherlands	#1	British Antarctic Survey United Kingdom
#2	Pennsylvania State University United States	#2	University of California, Irvine United States	#2	Goddard Space Flight Center United States
#3	University of Edinburgh United Kingdom	#3	University of Liège Belgium	#3	Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Switzerland
#4	University of Bristol United Kingdom	#4	Pennsylvania State University United States	#4	Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Denmark
#5	Vrije Universiteit Brussel Belgium	#5	Université Libre de Bruxelles Belgium
#6	Oregon State University United States	#6	Columbia University United States
#7	University of Sheffield United Kingdom	#7	University of Massachusetts Amherst United States
#8	University of California, Irvine United States	#8	Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand
#9	Imperial College London United Kingdom	#9	University of Colorado Boulder United States
#10	University of Colorado Boulder United States	#10	McGill University Canada
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