What is "icecaps"

Usage examples of "icecaps".

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.