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What are ice caps?

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Are they miniature ice sheets which does not flow as much as a valley glacier does?

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  1. ice caps are those good tasting drinks.


  2. sheets of ice!---DUH

  3. white sparkly teeth

  4. the white part at the top of a mountain

  5. Nice and white and they sit real high

    with some big bits dangeling

    right at the top of your head

    between your ears

  6. a mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land

  7. An ice cap is an ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area (usually covering a highland area). Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an ice sheet.[1][2]

    Ice caps are not constrained by topographical features (i.e., they will lie over the top of mountains) but their dome is usually centred around the highest point of a massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery.[1]

    Vatnajökull is an example of an ice cap in Iceland.[3]
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