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As the glacier flows down the valley to lower altitude where it is not replenished by snow fall, ... A the top is a mantle of fleshly fallen snow with a very low density of not more than 0.1. Below this is a layer in which the snowflakes have diminished in size to become granular snow, of which the density may be 0.3 or greater.
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library.thinkquest.org/5280/alpine_glaciers.htm
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The first state of compaction is granular snow or ice that contains about ... pressure of the snow and ice at the top of the glacier causes the ice at depth ...
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www.indiana.edu/~g103/G103/Week8/week8.html
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There is a dictionary word névé, meaning a type of young granular snow that you get at the top of a glacier - if this survives a full season of ablation it becomes the slightly denser firn.
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www.crosswordmanblog.com/2009/11/nyt-monday-112309-some...
www.crosswordmanblog.com/2009/11/nyt-monday-112309-somewhere-men.html
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The existence of an active glacier in Southern California of such heroic proportions as to justify comparison with the minor Continental glaciers of the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas, can be added to the local category of stupendous works in the economy of nature to be found in sub-tropical California.
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query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0815F93E5C177...
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1958 pit studies at the top of the glacier and in the middle and lower sections, ... A pit here showed granular, refrozen and recrystallized snow in 2-5 cm. ...
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iahs.info/redbooks/a054/054021.pdf
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Firn - A granular textured snow formed from fresh snow ... Zone of Ablation - The area on a glacier where more snow melts, evaporates, or sublimates than falls on it.
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Firn ice, or névé, is hard, granular snow atop a glacier. Brash ice is the wreckage of larger pieces of ice. Frazil ice is a formation of needle-shaped crystals. Grease ice is frazil ice in a later state of freezing.
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www.sacbee.com/794/story/11189.html
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Unconsolidated granular snow that has gone through a short freeze-and-thaw process. ... Permanent granular snow formed by repeated freeze-thaw cycles which is found above the head of a glacier.
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www.climbing.apollo.lv/frm_e2.htm
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We know that some glacial ice forms by a mechanism other than metamorphism because the transition from granular snow to glacial ice in Alaska occurs at much lower depths than in Greenland.
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