This is also known as an ice hat or ice dome. It is a cover-type glacier that is smaller than an ice sheet with a similar form but a more pronounced dome shape. Due to differential pressure, the ice inside the ice body flows in a radial pattern. It is a transitional type of glacier between an ice sheet and a mountain glacier. Ice caps are mainly found in plateaus and on islands at high latitudes; therefore, they can be further divided into plateau ice caps and island ice caps (Fig. 1).
Glacier remains landscape of the Pleistocene Baiyu icecap, northern Shaluli Mountains, western Sichuan (with a group of ice-scoured lakes and glacial erratic clusters, approximately 3,000 km2)
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(2020). Ice Cap. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1125
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