what is the weight in tons of the greenland ice sheet

cswilkins1 | 11:39 Sun 13th Dec 2009 | Science

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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).

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