or do you know at least a website that can show all of them and their description????? PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ PLZ
2007-10-16 08:02:43 · 3 answers · asked by ★Star Girl★™ 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
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.
2007-10-16 08:11:07 · answer #1 · answered by irssvt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to Discovery Channel.com and search Glaciers. My son had a project on this last year and this site is where I found the info.
2007-10-16 08:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by wondermom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what he said, kinda stole my thunder.
2007-10-16 12:32:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋