Where is ice found?
Italian glaciers
The Italian Glaciers Registry, compiled between 1959 and 1962, by the Italian Glaciology Committee and by the CNR (Italian National Research Centre), identified 838 glaciers with a total surface of 540 km2. of which almost 100 km2 in the Ortles-Cevedale Massif, followed by the Adamello-Presanella group and the Mont Blanc Group. On the Apennines there is only one glacier which is becoming extinct, the Calderone Glacier, a small strip on the Gran Sasso d’Italia.
The glaciers with the largest extension in the Italian Alps are the Forni Glacier in the Ortles-Cevedale Massif, with a surface area of 13 km2 in 1989, which competes for the first position in Italy with the Adamello Glacier with a surface area of 18 km2, which is however divided into various distinct flows. The Forni Glacier consists of three accumulation basins whose flows converge in a vast tongue that descends into the valley while the Adamello Glacier is on a plateau, a kind of small ice-sheet called Pian di Neve, from which numerous minor tongues and ice streams descend.
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