Talk:List of glaciers
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[edit] Title
Can we move the page to maybe List of glaciers and icefields or List of glaciers and ice fields?Jarfingle 03:21, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- Not sure...by icefields I suppose we would mean also ice sheets as well...I'll have to look up the defs on ice sheets, ice field and glacier to see if there are any reasosn they aren't all one and the same, with glacier being the geology/glaciology accepted terminology.--MONGO 05:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- Still thinking about this.
- List of glaciated areas?
- List of glaciers, icefields and icesheets?
etc...--MONGO 21:40, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
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- Other related terms are "ice sheet", "ice cap" and "ice shelf". I'd be inclined to keep the existing title and add new titles as above as needed. These terms are not necessarily well-defined. For ice cap, I found "A dome shape mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 19,300 miles" but I don't know if that is generally accepted. [1] Lists are intended to guide the user to content that may be of interest. As such, I think some overlap and ambiguity is acceptable. Walter Siegmund (talk) 14:43, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Multi-country bodies of ice?
Do we list bodies of ice in two countries (e.g., Stikine Icecap) under both entires? Jarfingle 03:24, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- I would list the glacier under both countries. Another area that was confusing when I expanded this list were the glaciers in Kashmir, which is disputed, so I listed them under what appeared to be the currently controlled and most likely of either India or Pakistan.--MONGO 05:06, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sections
I'd prefer to see the top-level sections alphabetically arranged. Charles Matthews 08:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks...I was meaning to get a hold of you since you started this page. I'll arrange the headings alphabetically.--MONGO 08:31, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
