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An iceberg is a body of ice floating in the ocean. A glacier is a land based 'river of ice' flowing from the mountains to its ultimate terminus, wherever that may be.
Thus they are very different things.
As to speed, like a river, that depends upon the gradient - in the cirques at the head, the velocity would be quite high, but slowing as the glacier grew and its gradient shallowed.
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What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away called?
iceberg
What is part of a continental glacier that has fallen into the ocean?
Iceberg.
What is the large sheet of ice called?
A glacier if it is on land; if it floats in the sea, it's called an iceberg.
What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away?
iceberg
What is a large piece of floating ice calved from a glacier called?
An Iceberg.
What is more ancient a glacier or an iceberg?
A glacier is older than an iceberg, because an iceberg is a piece of ice that fell off a glacier.
What is the synonym of iceberg?
glacier
What is a piece of glacier called?
An iceberg
How do you get an iceberg?
pressure is put on a glacier and causes a chunk of ice to float of on its own. This is a iceberg.
What is a piece of ice that breaks off a glacier and floats away called?
iceberg
What produces icebergs?
An iceberg forms after a glacier flows into a body of water, like an ocean. When the top portion of the glacier breaks off and floats, this becomes the iceberg.
What is a large detached piece of an iceberg or glacier?
A large detached piece of a glacier is called an iceberg. The process by which this happens is called calving.There isn't really a term for a detached piece of an iceberg. See related question.
What kind of landmark could a glacier form?
An iceberg
In a iceberg what is a snout?
The end of the glacier where melting occurs.
What is part of a continental glacier that has fallen into the ocean?
Iceberg.
What is the iceberg of the Titanic?
the iceberg that sunk Titanic may have been spawned from the Jakobshavn Glacier (western Greenland).
What happens where a glacier enters the sea?
Calving is the process of the individual iceberg breaking off from the glacier snout, in the sea, or in a glacial lake. The iceberg is the calf.
