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Alpine glaciers and their movement is common in mountainous areas.

Antarctica, however, is covered with an ice sheet, and its glaciers often flow into the sea without the alpine glacier brown or grey colour associated with carving valleys or bowls common in other mountainous areas on earth.

Ninety-eight percent of Antarctica is covered with this ice sheet, so most glaciers flow on top of more stable ice.

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