Glaciers By Abi P

Melting Glaciers

A Glacier is a slowly moving form of mass or a river which is created by there being more snowfall than snow melting for a decent amount of time. All continents have Glaciers apart from Australia.

One of the most common places you would find Glaciers are the north and south pole. This is due to being the furthest from the equator and having a little amount of land area so the snow keeps packing up and turnings into Glaciers. which causes it to become more and more common for Glaciers to pop up with the more that are created.

This is how a Ice sheet Glacier forms

The biggest Glacier in the world is the Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan (Asia)

this glacier is 1,000m Deep and 6,595 m long from being created over a valley.

This was formed in the ice age around 18,000 years ago and still stands today.

There are 2 types of Glaciers; Alpine Glaciers and Ice sheet Glaciers. Ice sheet glaciers stay as a sheet of ice and usually have around 2m-8m depth which are the ones usually at sea level and commonly more safe to walk on depending on the circumstances. Where as Alpine Glaciers can get anywhere up to 20m-1000m high or deep.

Apart from the north and south pole most areas that have Glaciers usually just have Alpine or Ice sheets in an area but that's not always the case.

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