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Glaciers entering the sea and separating into smaller segments of ice.
D'angelo Gottlieb
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∙ 15y agoa large thick mass that floats on water and then melts when it is hot out side
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What is the definition of glaciers calving?
Glaciers entering the sea and separating into smaller segments of ice.
What is the definition of cryosphere?
It ice, or glaciers in cold places were it snows. Example: Snowy mountains have cryosphere.
What is the definition of kettle in earth science?
a kettle lake is a lake made by glaciers when they passed through.
What is the process that the rocks dragged by glaciers produce grooves and scratches in bedrock is this the definition?
By the passing by of a glacier.
What is a thick sheet of moving ice?
Also called ice sheets, they can be called glaciers or continental ice masses. While glaciers, by definition, have to be moving- albeit VERY slowly- ice sheets can just lay there until they move, which could classify them as a glacier.
What the 2 most common kinds of glaciers?
There are 2 main types of glaciers, Continental is one, they float away from central regions. The second is alpine or valley which are the glaciers that flow down the valley from the mountain.
What are the different types of glaciers?
The main types of glaciers are valley glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, piedmont glaciers, outlet glaciers, and cirque glaciers. Valley glaciers form in mountain valleys, ice caps cover smaller areas, ice sheets are massive continental glaciers, piedmont glaciers form at the base of mountains, outlet glaciers are the streams of ice flowing out of ice caps or ice sheets, and cirque glaciers are located in bowl-shaped depressions on mountainsides.
How is a continental and valley glaciers the same?
Continental glaciers are thicker and larger. Valley glaciers are formed on mountains; continental glaciers are formed on flat land.
What are glaciers formed in mountains called?
Cirque glaciers.
How are continental and valley glaciers?
Continental glaciers are thicker and larger. Valley glaciers are formed on mountains; continental glaciers are formed on flat land.
What are the names of Irelands glaciers?
there are no glaciers in Ireland
Why are glaciers slow?
glaciers are very big
