An ice cap is a dome-shaped
ice mass that covers less than 50 000 km² of land area (usually covering a highland area). Masses of ice covering more than 50 000 km² are termed an
ice sheet.Ice caps are not constrained by
topographical features (i.e., they will lie over the top of mountains) but their dome is usually centred around the highest point of a
massif. Ice flows away from this high point (the
ice divide) towards the ice cap's periphery.
Vatnajökull is an example of an ice cap in
Iceland.
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n. ชั้นน้ำแข็งที่ปกคลุมพื้นโลก (แถบขั้วโลกเหนือและใต้)