Where did the water for the ice caps come from?

Answer 1

Antarctic ice is formed very slowly when ice crystals -- the only forms of precipitation over 99.9% of the continent -- stick to existing ice and are covered with other ice crystals. Over millenia, the ice becomes so heavy that it presses out all minerals other than oxygen and hydrogen, and becomes clear.

Answer 2

The majority of the water for ice caps and glaciers comes from precipitation in the form of snow. Snow that accumulates over time compacts into ice, forming the ice caps and glaciers. Additionally, some water may come from glacial melt or ice shelf calving, where chunks of ice break off into the ocean.

Answer 3

From the time of the ice age when snow covered almost the whole world. In the time of the dinosaurs there were no polar caps at all. Also, rainforest fossils have been found on the continent, indicating that there was once a much milder climate there.

Answer 4

Ice And Snow:

Ice and Snow are H2o. So technically, If they were to fall from the clouds it would take place as rain in cold weather. Now for Ice, It would either fall from the clouds as hail or either start as snow and as the temperature drops and freezes into ice. So snow and ice would come from the sky when the temperature drops

Answer 5

All icebergs everywhere calve off of ice glaciers as gravity pulls the heavy ice into the sea. Ice 'tongues' form and the underwater action on the tongues causes calving, which forms icebergs.

Answer 6

All ice is formed from moisture. The average humidity on the Antarctic continent is about five percent. What of that humidity that doesn't evaporate, freezes into ice.

Answer 7

Ice is always formed when moisture reaches below 32 degrees F -- O degrees C -- anywhere on earth.

Answer 8

Generally, warming ocean waters are the cause of most ice melting in the Antarctic.

Answer 9

The worldwide flood

Answer 10

it turns into water