How long does it take a glacier to form?
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Often they form over centuries or millenia.  They are formed by snowfall that does not melt during the warmer months.  As each year's snowfall adds to the layers, it begins to move downhill.  Factors involved in the speed of glacier formation are the amount of snowfall, the amount of evaporation durning the dry season, and the amount of meltoff each year.  Some glaciers in Alaska and Siberia and Scadanavia are literally thousands of years old.  In Antarctica, they are millions of years old.  The glacier in the Mt. Saint Helens volcano crater (Washington State, USA), has formed in just 25 years!
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About 4 to 20 minutes.\nThe distance between them can fluctuate between 0,5 to 2,5 AU.\nAn AU = the distance between Earth and  the Sun.
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Glaciers cannot move across entire oceans.  Large continental ice sheets that grow large enough to intersect a coastline sometimes extend into the ocean (see #1 below).  Their base sits on the seafloor, and in some cases can extend hundreds of miles out to sea.  The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a continental glacier that is 'grounded' below sea level.  It sits on the continental shelf of the Ross Sea.  In the past (several thousands of years ago), it extended all the way to the edge of the continental shelf.\n\nThese glaciers also usually have whats is called an ice shelf.  An ice shelf is an extension of the glacier that floats on the ocean.  Icebergs are a product of bits of the ice shelf breaking off into the ocean.  Ice shelves can extend several hundreds of miles into the ocean (see #2).\n\nValley glaciers in places like Alaska or Greenland also discharge into the ocean.  The ends of these glaciers typically float and extend out into the bay of the valley where the glacier sits.
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Strange question.  First, it says z% of Earth's total icecap volume is floating, then it breaks down the total floating icecap as x% above water and y% below water.  Given that, what is the point of telling us that z% of the ice is floating?  \n\nMy real issue though, is that, since we are talking about FLOATING ice, the ocean level won't change at all.   Remember that a floating object displaces its weight (Archimedes Principle).  When the ice melts, the weight of the water stays the same - you just have the melted ice now occuping the same 92% of space in the ocean that the ice used to occupy.\n\nBy the way, the reason melting glaciers will raise ocean levels is because the glaciers are NOT floating ice until they break off - they are on land.  Actually, the ocean level rises as soon as the glacier hits the water.  After that, it doesn't matter how long it takes for the glacier to melt.
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To get down a beginner trail should take a day. To ski intermediate trails linking parallel turns could take anywhere from 2 days to 25 days depending on your balance, athleticism, and agressiveness, and training.It can take years to get to a high expert level. Snowboarding is harder initially but easier to master in the long run.
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We know that the Earth is 360 degrees(as the Earth is a sphere). Now the Earth takes about 24 hrs to complete a rotation or 360 degrees. Therefore in 1 hour, it will travel 15 degrees. But some times countries are so small that they don't even occupy 15 degree area. So its half - 7.5 degrees is taken into consideration. The main purpose of taking all this trouble is to make the calculation of time easier.
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In order for snow to form the air must be supercooled. The process of snow formation starts w/ the Bergeron Process. This is also known as cold cloud precipitation.\n\nTiny ice particles form around condensation nuclei aka aerosols (pollen, dust, ash, salts, etc.) in the upper atmosphere.\n\nThey grow larger & larger until they can no longer be supported & gravity takes over.\n\nThe reason why the whole cloud won't freeze is b/c they are individual ice crystals. There is no way that they could stay suspended long enough to grow large enough to stick together.\n\nSo your answer is gravity takes over!
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Yes definetly, infact it has already started. there are many theories that link to global warming including that the glaciers would melt because of the rise in temperature and that will cause sea levels to rise. It may also cause a problem for geese migrations. Summers will get even more hotter, a decrese in snow may also be possble. But thats just my opinion
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the amount of time it takes
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Somewhere around 10 million years. This should be compared to the sun, which will last a total of 10 *billion* years.\n\nHomework?
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Go to http://www.halos.com/videos.htm and see free streaming video and you will see how mountains are formed.
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about 90 seconds, but it depends on elevation (because of atmospheric pressure)
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I was told that it was becuase of the mountains.The ice or snow of mountains would melt into water,forming small rivers that turn into more and more bigger rivers{or something like that} that turn into oceans."Where does the snow of a mountain or ice of a mountain come from?",you might ask.That I dont know.
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hmmm ..... go here !>>> under google >>> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=glaciological%20volcanic%20index:%20definition,%20scale,%20implications&hl=en&lr=&oi=scholart\nNew modeling of the Vostok ice flow line and implication for the glaciological chronology of the … - group of 10 »\nF Parrenin, F Rémy, C Ritz, MJ Siegert, J Jouzel - JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, 2004 - ggy.bris.ac.uk \n... 2. Description of the Glaciological Dating Model Used [ 5 ] To compute the age of ...\nNote that there is a circular problem in the model definition: the thinning ...
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Well, they say there´s no end to space....prove it!!! \n\nI say it should take you about 3 weeks if you take a gentle stroll...but hey, who´s gonna prove me wrong!!! \n\nGreat question... ;-)
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It takes the Moon 27.322 days to go around the Earth once. Because of this motion, the Moon appears to move about 13° against the stars each day, or about one-half degree per hour. If you watch the Moon over the course of several hours one night, you will notice that its position among the stars will change by a few degrees.
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cooling takes a very long time.  A body the size of the moon takes hundreds of millions of years to cool.  The earth, with no internal heating would take billions of years to cool, and as people have said, it is being heated by the sun, internally from radioactive decay and an atmosphere exists which allows for the greenhouse effect.  So the cooling will take much much longer.