Ice caps cover vast areas of more than 50,000 km². produce

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Ice caps cover vast areas of more than 50,000 km². produce floating ice shelves when valley or continental glaciers encounter the sea. occur when glaciers emerge from a steep mountain valley onto broad lowlands completely cover underlying terrain, but much smaller than ice sheets. consist of ice confined to mountain valleys. ice confined to mountain valleys ice confined to mountain valleys ice confined to mountain valleys