No. Glaciers, if you wanted to look at it that way, would be classified as rocks. Rocks are made up of minerals. The ice that makes up a glacier would be a mineral, but because a glacier is made up of lots of ice crystals, the glacier itself would be a rock. read more
Glaciers, if you wanted to look at it that way, would be classified as rocks. Rocks are made up of minerals. The ice that makes up a glacier would be a mineral, but because a glacier is made up of lots of ice crystals, the glacier itself would be a rock. read more
As the glacier calves or melts at its edges, the water runs off or icebergs melt in the ocean. The water evaporates and some precipitates and is eventually part of new glacial ice. But glaciers are rarely regarded as being rocks in the "classic" sense even by geologists, and most people dont even know ice is a mineral. read more
A mineral's hardness is a measure of a mineral's resistance to scratching. This is measured by scratching it against another substance of known hardness on the Mohs Hardness Scale. This simple graphic outlines the index minerals and common objects used to determine a mineral's hardness. read more