News1 min ago
what is the weight in tons of the greenland ice sheet
1 Answers
Answers
Only 1 answer
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by cswilkins1. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
The Wikipedia article on the Greenland Ice sheet quotes a volume of 2,850,000 cubic kilometres. One cu.km is 1000 million cubic metres and the density of ice is quoted elsewhere as 0.9167 tonnes/m³, giving a weight of 2612.595 million, million tonnes. (2.612595 x 10^15 tonnes).
2 1/2 year old question. Is this a record? (grin)
2 1/2 year old question. Is this a record? (grin)
Only 1 answer
