Glaciers - SciOly

Hubbard Glacier

Tidewater valley glacier; largest in North America; Created several glacial lakes and floods; calves off giant chunks of ice into Disenchantment Bay near the Alaskan Panhandle

Lambert Glacier

Outlet glacier; Antarctica; largest glacier in the world (excluding ice fields, caps, and sheets); drains approx. 8% of antarctic ice sheet by volume

Siachen Glacier

Valley Glacier; eastern Karakoram between India and Pakistan; apart of an ongoing conflict; 76km long, second largest non-polar glacier; called the “Third Pole” due to extreme tempuratures

Larsen B

Unstable ice shelf; the shelf disinegrated

Patagonian Ice Fields

N and S ice fields, technically separate; Covered much of the Andes mountains in Argentina and Chile; the ice fields joined together as one; important site for climate change and global warming

Greenland Ice sheet

covers 80% of the surface of Greenland; surrounded by several small glaciers and ice caps

Antarctic Ice Sheets

E and W Antarctic compromise vast majority of ice in Antarctica; Pleistocene glaciation; The Great Lakes were deepend under the forces of this ice sheet; left numerous large ice caps and glaciers in its former ranges, mostly in Canada