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continental glacier

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continental glacier [¦känt·ən¦ent·əl ′glā·shər]
(hydrology)
A sheet of ice covering a large tract of land, such as the ice caps of Greenland and the Antarctic.
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Instead, it has a two-mile-thick mass of flowing ice called a continental glacier.
Icebergs: top to bottom: plunge under Antarctic ice to learn about ... by Masibay, Kim Y. / Science World
My association with those scientists was during my graduate studies, which involved evaluating the advance and retreat of the last continental glacier on North America some 14,000 years ago.
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Also, many of these studies have been carried out in mountainous regions where the hydraulic head and thickness of the ice may have been much greater than it was here, at the very margin of a wasting continental glacier.
Subglacial meltwater channels (NYE channels or N-channels) in ... by Gray, Henry H. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
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