Concept information
Preferred term
land ice
Type
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http://www.irandoc.ac.ir/onto/irandoc-meta/Concept
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
Definitions
- Land ice is any part of the Earth's seasonal or perennial ice cover that has formed over land as the result, principally, of the freezing of precipitation; opposed to sea ice formed by the freezing of seawater. Thus, an iceberg or tabular iceberg is land ice as well as its parent glacier, ice sheet, or ice shelf. The two major concentrations of land ice are the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Glaciers and ice caps are the other important forms; however, some members of the glaciology community hold that glaciers (i.e. rock glaciers) need not have any ice.
Obsolete
- false
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In other languages
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Persian
URI
http://www.irandoc.acir/onto/irandoc/SWEETT11590
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