Editing Ice cap (section)

{{Short description|Ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area}}
{{About|the glacial feature||Icecap (disambiguation)}}
[[File:Vatnajökull.jpeg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[Vatnajökull]], Iceland]]

In [[glaciology]], an '''ice cap''' is a mass of [[ice]] that covers less than {{cvt|50,000|km2|mi2}} of [[land]] area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than {{cvt|50,000|km2|mi2}} are termed [[ice sheet]]s.<ref name=DougBenn>{{cite book |last1=Benn|first1=Douglas |first2=David|last2=Evans |title=Glaciers and Glaciation
|year=1998 |publisher=[[Edward Arnold (publisher)|Arnold]] |location=London |isbn=0-340-58431-9}}</ref><ref name=Bennett>{{cite book |last1=Bennett|first1=Matthew |first2=Neil|last2=Glasser |title=Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms |year=1996 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|John Wiley & Sons]] |location=[[Chichester]], England |isbn=0-471-96345-3}}</ref><ref name="GreveBlatter2009">{{cite book |last1=Greve|first1=R. |last2=Blatter|first2=H. |year=2009 |title=Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]] |doi=10.1007/978-3-642-03415-2 |isbn=978-3-642-03414-5}}</ref>