Ancient glaciers

Ancient glaciers

Ancient glaciers are glaciers formed before modern glaciers. There have been many large Glaciations in geological history, such as Sinian glaciation, Permo Carboniferous glaciation and Quaternary glaciation. During the glacial period, glaciers were widely developed on the earth, but only part of glaciation remains are preserved in modern times.

In general, the glaciers before the active modern glaciers are called ancient glaciers. Glaciers are still developing. Corresponding to ancient glaciers. It is mainly distributed in the polar regions and some high mountain areas, accounting for about 10% of the land area, with a total of 16 million LCM, concentrating about 85% of the world's fresh water resources.

Address: Chayu County, Nyingchi Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region

Longitude: 97.46348

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