Wiktionary
n. (ice cap English)
Usage examples of "ice caps".
The cloud cover has deteriorated to only about fifty percent and there are polar ice caps now.
Mars, by contrast, has weather, dust storms, its own moons, volcanos, polar ice caps, peculiar landforms, ancient river valleys, and evidence of massive climatic change on a once-Earthlike world.
There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day.
And then, increasing in numbers past all reason, the spaceborn jellyfish went to other worlds, and there he did destroy mountains, build up plains, shift whole forests, redirect rivers, melt ice caps, mold continents, dig new seas, and in these and other ways did deface the great planets which, next to the stars, are nature's noblest work.
Those satellites are nuclear missile platforms that will each fire thirty twenty-five-megaton warheads into the ice caps.
She studied the continents, green with life, vast purple savannahs, exquisitely small ice caps at the poles.
The hemisphere facing him showed a vast, island-strewn ocean, blue-black and cloud-littered, with the shining white of ice caps at the northern and southern extremes.
BEYOND the mountains, the sky was sapphire and blue, a golden glow spreading across the ice caps as the sun slowly lifted.
It would take only a decade for the ice caps to form, a decade more for them to extend as far south as the sites of London, Berlin, Manhattan.
Even over the long aeons, when the continents themselves shift utterly away from the north and from the south, still the ice caps remain .
There are no ice caps, and the present shorelines do not appear very old.
It is a warm planet with no polar ice caps and a temperature range similar to Earth tropics at the equator, Earth temperate extending almost to the poles.
Though a few water merchants had explored the northern ice caps, the lower latitudes remained primarily uninhabited, avoided, shrouded in mystery.