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It is thought that as Earth's climate cooled just over 30 million years ago, the snows that fell on the mountains produced mighty glaciers, which then merged to form one giant spreading ice-mass.
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These great disturbances of the ice-mass must have a cause, and the only conceivable one was that the subjacent land had brought about this disruption of the surface.
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He also has a go at that famous melting ice cap theory: The Antarctic, which holds 90 per cent of the world's ice and nearly all its 160,000 glaciers, has cooled and gained ice-mass in the past 30 years, reversing a 6,000-year melting trend.
Hot air everywhere Helen 2006
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They say that “this idea is consistent with recent estimates of ice-mass loss” while dodging the issue that the QUANTITY does not.
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This idea is consistent with recent estimates of ice-mass loss in Antarctica and accelerating ice-mass loss on Greenland.
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These great disturbances of the ice-mass must have a cause, and the only conceivable one was that the subjacent land had brought about this disruption of the surface.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003
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An examination of the sides of the ice-mass also shows to the eye some other peculiarities.
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Wilson had not only been busy with the penguins at Cape Crozier, but had also made a complete examination of the enormous and interesting pressure ridges which form the junction of the Great Barrier ice-mass with the land, and subsequently had spent much time in studying the windless area to the south of Ross Island.
The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition Charles Turley 1904
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These great disturbances of the ice-mass must have a cause, and the only conceivable one was that the subjacent land had brought about this disruption of the surface.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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These great disturbances of the ice-mass must have a cause, and the only conceivable one was that the subjacent land had brought about this disruption of the surface.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 Roald Amundsen 1900
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