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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.
According to theory, a greenhouse warming could raise sea levels by melting continental glaciers and ice caps and by thermally expanding the oceans.
 
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