Mountain cover, often

Usage examples of icecap.

Even after thousands of years the huge icecaps that must have formed after the saturation bombing still covered nearly a quarter of the planet.

Earth-type planet, with the usual seas, continents, polar icecaps and all the rest of it.

Their mass will cause slippages in the polar icecaps, creating the rise of oceans and tsunamis.

The steadily melting icecaps had been raising the sea level, slowly, inexorably, a few inches a year.

Though there was a suggestion of a wisp of atmosphere - a smoky blue halo encircling the planet - and though there were icecaps at either pole, the world looked neither habitable nor inviting.

The TK4 gave a beautiful performance demonstration, and about an hour and a half after leaving the safety wanigan, even allowing for reduced speed on the gradient down the side of the icecap to the flat coastal strip, we came easily into Camp Belvoir and I ran the hovercraft into its hangar, and turned smugly to Herschel.

Even at Belvoir, at the foot of the icecap, winds were somewhere over sixty, gusting up to ninety miles an hour.

The brief daylight was over, the night black and moonless, the wind getting stronger as TK4 made the long climb out of Belvoir, up to the edge of the icecap.

A layer of fat, a mixture of beef tallow and mutton tallow, covered the bowl like an icecap.

On the icecap, in the middle of a fierce storm, the machines must never be switched off, because the batteries would go dead and the lubricants in the engines would freeze up within two or three minutes.

Slight variations in the output of sunlight, the orbital motion of the planet, clouds, oceans, and polar icecaps produced climatic changes –.

The suspension system was primitive at best, and every irregularity of the icecap was instantly transmitted through the skis and wheels to the cargo bed.