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What are the different types of glaciers? Write briefly about each of them.​

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Answered by ag5578112
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Types of glaciers

There are two primary types of glaciers:

  • Continental: Ice sheets are dome-shaped glaciers that flow away from a central region and are largely unaffected by underlying topography (e.g., Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets);

  • Alpine or valley: glaciers in mountains that flow down valleys. When two or glaciers meet and merge at the base of mountains, the new glacier is called a piedmont glacier. If the piedmont glacier flows to the sea, it's called a tidewater glacier.

1) cirque glacier - glacier confined by a valley; forms in a cirque (semicircular basin at head of valley formed by plucking of bedrock by glacier moving down hill).

2) valley glacier - form in a valley.

3) ice caps - cover mountain tops.

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