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Glaciers flow, like rivers, except they flow much more slowly.
Like rivers, glaciers can carry sediment, stones, rocks, and boulders downhill. When large rocks are found downhill from the original rock formations, for example, in mountains, one can propose that the glacial ice fractured the boulders from the mountain, and carried them to their -- often far away -- final resting place.
Geologists can match the type of stone found downhill and the stone in the mountain from which it was moved by the glacier. This can confirm that the geography in between was covered at some point by a glacier.
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What is a mass of ice and snow that permanetly cover a large area of land?
Glacier A continuous mass of ice covering a . . A continuous mass of ice covering a large landmass is known as a mass of perennial ice. (general term). The ice covering Antarctica is called an ice sheet, and it covers 98% of the continent.
What is a ice cap?
An ice cap is a covering of ice over a large area. They are often on the polar region of the Earth. It is an ice mass that covers a land area that is usually in a highland area.
Is a glacier a mass of ice or a mass of sand?
The answer to the question is a glacier is a mass of ice.
What are some glacier jokes?
What did the glacier say to the other glacier? ICE ICE BABY
What kind of machine could compare to a glacier and how are the two alike?
A freezer because a glacier has ice and a freezer MAKES ice
What is a mass of ice and snow that permanetly cover a large area of land?
Glacier A continuous mass of ice covering a . . A continuous mass of ice covering a large landmass is known as a mass of perennial ice. (general term). The ice covering Antarctica is called an ice sheet, and it covers 98% of the continent.
What is a ice cap?
An ice cap is a covering of ice over a large area. They are often on the polar region of the Earth. It is an ice mass that covers a land area that is usually in a highland area.
What is a melted ice cap?
An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area (usually covering a highland area), so a melted ice cap is literally just one that has melted, and the high volume of water causes floods.
What is continental glacier?
A continental glacier is a glacier that spreads out from a central mass of ice.Hope this helps.Answer 2:A continental glacier is a an ice sheet covering much of a continent
What is the difference between ice caps and glaciers?
An ice cap covers less than 50,000 km of land, and usually just covers the tops, or the highland area.Ê Glaciers are bodies of ice that moves under its own weight and form over years or centuries.
Is a glacier a mass of ice or a mass of sand?
The answer to the question is a glacier is a mass of ice.
Glacier ice that covers a large area of flat land?
This could be an ice sheet, or perhaps an ice plateau.
What are some glacier jokes?
What did the glacier say to the other glacier? ICE ICE BABY
What kind of machine could compare to a glacier and how are the two alike?
A freezer because a glacier has ice and a freezer MAKES ice
What is a large mass of snow and ice that moves slowly over land?
Any large mass of ice that moves slowly over ice is called a glacier.
What is iceland largest glacier?
==Vatnajökull== (English: Glacier of Rivers)(or lakes) Covering more than 8% of the country, with a size of 8,100 km², it is the largest glacier in Europe in volume (3,100 km³) and the second largest (after Austfonna in Svalbard) in area (not counting the still larger ice cap of Severny Island of Novaya Zemlya, Russia, which is located in the extreme northeast of Europe).
Why is ice in a glacier considered to be a mineral but but what forms a glacier is not?
Ice forms a glacier and therefore it is considered a mineral.
