What Are Continental Glaciers?

Alpine glaciers are found in particular regions of mountains, right? And they can be fairly large. But continental glaciers are enormous. They cover not just mountain terrain, but the entire and entire region over an area greater than 50 thousand square kilometers. Currently we've just got the two, the antarctic ice sheet and the greenland ice sheet. About 90 % all the mass of ice on earth is in antarcica. If melted, it would raise sea levels by about 60 meters. The other phenomenon that i wanted to talk about, which is technically not a glacier, but it's related, so i'll mention it here. This is sea ice. Sea ice is essentially just frozen