what is the difference between an icefield and a glacier
Icefields and Glaciers. Glaciers, of all our alpine landforms, have had more visual impact on our landscape than any erosional agent, save water. Look around you, youll see smooth mountain bowls (cirques), wide mountain passes, broad. u-shaped valleys, Matterhorn style summits and sharp ridgesall legacies of the ice age.
The ice also flows down valleys extending from the icefield, pulled by gravity just as river water is, but much more slowly, moving downhill between 15 m and 125 m a year. In the. Athabasca Glacier, a snowflake requires 150â200 years to go. from fluttering out of the sky onto the icefield to melting out at the.