Types of Glaciers: Continental Ice Sheets
Continental ice sheets are not located on mountainsides like the alpine glaciers are. They are larger than alpine glaciers and instead of flowing downhill like alpine glaciers, they flow outward in all directions. They are large masses of glacier ice that cover areas greater than 50,000 km2. The only current continental ice sheet glaciers are in Antarctica and Greenland, but continental ice sheets have covered various other parts of the Earth in the geologic past. The presentation goes over Antarctica, Greenland, and a past continental ice sheet no longer in existence.
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