A crack or fissure in a glacier or or ice sheetA mass of glacial land ice extending more than 50,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles). The two ice sheets on Earth today cover most of Greenland and Antarctica and together... More* (Note that a crevice is a fissure in rock).
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