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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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