Icefield
An ice field (also spelled icefield) is a mass of interconnected valley glaciers. It is also known as a mountain glacier or alpine glacier.
It lies on a mountain mass with sticking out rock ridges or summits. Ice is likely to be harmed or influenced by gravity and so ice fields usually form over large areas that are drained by a river.
The higher peaks under the mountain rock that stick out through the icefields are known as nunataks. Ice fields are larger than Alps-based glaciers but smaller than ice caps and ice flat materials.
An ice field is different from an ice cap also because by not having a dome-like form.
Icefield Media
The Southern Patagonian Ice Field between Chile and Argentina.
The Harding Icefield on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, United States.
Related pages
Sources
- Strahler, Alan H.. Introducing Physical Geography (in en) (April 2001)John Wiley & Sons Incorporated. ISBN 978-0-471-09017-5.
- Casassa, Gino. The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies (in en) (2012-12-06)Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1-4615-0645-4.
- Monahan, Patricia A.. AMSR-E melt patterns on the Southern Patagonia Icefield (in en). Journal of Glaciology 56 (198) (2010). p. 699–708. doi:10.3189/002214310793146197.
- Conway, J. P.. Icefield Breezes: Mesoscale Diurnal Circulation in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Over an Outlet of the Columbia Icefield, Canadian Rockies (in en). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 126 (6) (2021-03-27). doi:10.1029/2020JD034225.
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