Assertion: continental glacier | /r/Synonym | continental ice sheet
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text: calving - the process in which large chunks of ice break off a glacier cirque - a bowl-shaped depression formed at the beginning or end of a glacier -- a cirque has high walls except for the downhill portion where the glacier once flowed downwards continental glacier (also called continental ice sheet) - a dome-shaped glacier that covers relatively flat land, for example, the Antarctic and Greenland glaciers.