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