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.

 Related pages 

 Ice sheet
 Glacier
 Summit

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