Key:glacier:type
| glacier:type |
| Description |
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| Classification of the type of a glacier |
| Group: Natural |
| Used on these elements |
| Documented values: 1 |
| Requires |
| Status: in use |
| Tools for this tag |
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The glacier:type key is used to provide additional information about the morphology and classification of a glacier tagged with natural=glacier. For the specific conventions of mapping glaciers and land ice in the Antarctic see also Antarctica/Tagging.
Values
The following values are in active use, for more proposed values see Proposed features/Glaciers tags
| Values for glacier:type=* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| value | definition | example | image | Taginfo |
| glacier:type=icecap | Ice masses, dome shaped, with radial flow, raising above the surrounding terrain, see Wikipedia | The Vatnajökull glacier | ||
| glacier:type=icefield | Ice masses significantly covering underlying topography but constrained by mountains (in contrast to ice caps which lie on top of them), see Wikipedia | The Southern Patagonian Ice Field | ||
| glacier:type=valley | Valley glaciers are glaciers at the bottom of a single valley flowing downward | The Mer de Glace in the Mont Blanc massif | ||
| glacier:type=mountain | All smaller glaciers that do not fill a whole valley | The Tré-les-Eaux glacier | ||
| glacier:type=rock | Flowing ice masses not originating from snow usually containing significant amounts of soil/rocks | |||
| glacier:type=shelf | Ice shelves are larger areas of thick, permanent glacier ice floating on the ocean | The Ross ice shelf | ||
| glacier:type=ice_tongue | A long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the end of a tidewater glacier over water | The Erebus ice tongue, Antarctica | ||
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