Question

briefly write about the two types of glacier

Answer 1

1) Continental: glacier sare also known as ice sheets because they envelop everything in sight with a layer of - you guessed it - ice. These are the kind of massive, all-consuming glaciers that might bring to mind images of ice ages and polar bears, and they currently cover the earth's poles and very cold places, like Greenland. Because they are so massive, continental glaciers smooth the earth's surface as they move. The markings they leave behind are not very obvious, but since continental glaciers cover such large pieces of land, scientists can use the striations left behind to study how continents used to be linked together.


2) Alpine: glaciersare created from the densely packed snow and ice found on top of mountains as well as in thevalleys between them. Once alpine glaciers begin their downhill descent, they start their slow-moving havoc on the terrain around them.