What is Icefield?
[[File:St_Elias_Ice-field.jpg|thumb|224x224px|Ice field at St. Elias Mountain.]] An '''ice field''' (also spelled '''icefield''') is a mass of interconnected valley [[Glacier|glaciers]]. It is also known as mountain glacier or alpine glacier. It lies on a mountain mass with sticking out rock [[Ridge|ridges]] or [[Summit|summits]]. Due to ice's likelihood of being harmed or influenced by gravity, ice fields usually form over large areas that are drained by a river. The higher peaks under the mountain rock that stick out through the icefields are known as nunataks. Ice fields are larger than Alps-based glaciers, but smaller than [[Ice cap|ice caps]] and [[Ice sheet|ice flat materials]]. An ice field is also measurable from an ice cap because it does not have a [[dome]]-like form. == Related pages == {{commons category|Ice fields}} * [[Ice sheet]] * [[Glacier]] * [[Summit]] == Sources == * {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XHwAAAAACAAJ|title=Introducing Physical Geography|last=Strahler|first=Alan H.|date=April 2001|publisher=John Wiley & Sons Incorporated|isbn=978-0-471-09017-5|publication-date=2001|language=en}} * {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g4bkBwAAQBAJ&dq=Icefield+history&pg=PR10|title=The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies|last1=Casassa|first1=Gino|last2=Sepúlveda|first2=Francisco V.|last3=Sinclair|first3=Rolf M.|date=2012-12-06|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4615-0645-4|language=en}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Monahan|first1=Patricia A.|last2=Ramage|first2=Joan|date=2010|title=AMSR-E melt patterns on the Southern Patagonia Icefield|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-glaciology/article/amsre-melt-patterns-on-the-southern-patagonia-icefield/ACDC3D244128B55EEC759796FF0C251B|journal=Journal of Glaciology|language=en|volume=56|issue=198|pages=699–708|doi=10.3189/002214310793146197|s2cid=130936674 |issn=0022-1430}} * {{Cite journal|last1=Conway|first1=J. P.|last2=Helgason|f