What is the continental ice cover and the mountain ice cover?

There are two types of glaciers in the world. One is the continental ice sheet and the other is the mountain glaciers.

Continental ice sheets are mainly distributed in Antarctica and Greenland. Mountain glaciers are distributed in some mountains in the middle and low latitudes. The total area of ​​glaciers in the world totals more than 15 million square kilometers, of which the continent’s ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland account for 14.65 million square kilometers. Therefore, compared to the continental ice sheet, the mountain glaciers are extremely disparate in scale.

On the immense continental ice cover, the endless ice currents cover up the deep valleys of the mountains. Only a handful of peaks take a sharp, ice-capped Antarctic ice cover on the ice. The past has always been a mystery. The deep ice covers the Antarctic continent. The true face. Scientists used geophysical methods to discover that there are many small lakes under the Antarctic ice sheet, and that there are still lives in these lakes.

Our country's glaciers belong to mountain glaciers. It was in the Ice Age, the most prosperous of the Quaternary glaciers, that the size of the glaciers was greatly expanded and they did not develop into continental ice sheets. In the past, many experts believed that the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was covered by a large ice sheet during the Quaternary period, even though some foreign experts still hold this view. However, after inspection and demonstration, our country's glaciologists basically denied this view.