Ice sheet
A mass of ice and snow of considerable thickness and large area. Ice sheets may be resting on rock or floating. Ice sheets of less than about 50,000 square km resting on rock are called ice caps.
The following have been used in the definition of this feature type
The following have been used in categorising this feature type
Code | Name | Definition | Data type | Values | UoM | Used by these Feature Types | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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1042 | Dataset_Id | An unique identifier of the dataset the feature belongs to | Mandatory | number(4) |   |   | Types | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1045 | Date_Capture | The date the feature was captured | Optional | date |   |   | Types | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1249 | Date_Flag | The type of date been stored, i.e.whether the date is approximate or definite, and for which component of the date is approximate or definite. Also includes seasons | Optional | character(50) |
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1150 | Q_Info | An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record. | Mandatory | number(5) |   |   | Types | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1090 | SCAR_Gaz_Id | Reference number as in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica | Mandatory | number(10) |   |   | Types | ||||||||||||||||||||||
1127 | SCAR_Name | A placename name in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. These names have been contributed by national gazetteers. | Mandatory | character(100) |   |   | Types |