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    is firn. The minimum altitude that firn accumulates on a glacier is called the firn limit, firn line or snowline. Antarctic Firn Daniel Bruun Firn Dreyer...
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    The West Northwall Firn was a glacial body on Mount Carstensz in the Sudirman Range on the island of New Guinea in Central Papua province, Indonesia. The...
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    The East Northwall Firn was a glacier on Mount Carstensz in the Sudirman Range on the island of New Guinea in Central Papua province, Indonesia. Situated...
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    crevasse that forms where moving glacier ice separates from the stagnant ice or firn above. It is often a serious obstacle for mountaineers, who sometimes abbreviate...
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    Glacier Ygdrasil Ymer Glacier Zachariæ Isstrøm Daniel Bruun Firn Dreyer Firn Rink Firn Sven Hedin Firn List of glaciers List of fjords of Greenland Rignot E...
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    Snow (section Firn)
    head of a glacier. The minimum altitude that firn accumulates on a glacier is called the firn limit, firn line or snowline. There are four main mechanisms...
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  • North Wall (redirect from Northwall Firn)
    Orkney Northwall Firn, a glacier now split in two, East Northwall Firn, a glacier in Papua province, Indonesia West Northwall Firn, a glacier in Papua...
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    that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is both older and slightly denser. Firn eventually becomes glacial ice – the long-lived,...
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    and western sides of the mountain. Remnants of the once mighty Northwall Firn (now separated into eastern and western parts) cling tenuously to the southern...
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    freshly fallen powder snow, creating an avalanche hazard on steep slopes. FirnFirn is dense, granular snow, which has been in place for multiple years but...
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    On a glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, (melting, evaporation...
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  • Nyeboe Land (redirect from Dreyer Firn)
    southeast the peninsula is attached to the mainland and its ice cap. The Dreyer Firn is located in the southwest, near the Saint George Fjord's shore. There are...
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    concentration. Air trapped in snow forms bubbles as the snow is compressed to form firn and then glacial ice. Icebergs can contain up to 10% air bubbles by volume...
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    Col route of Mt. Everest. Serac, Russell Glacier in Greenland Seracs in firn at 3,050 metres (10,000 feet) on the Winthrop Glacier of Mount Rainier in...
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    Fels & Firn Press, 1976. Montgomery, John. The Kerouac We Knew. Fels & Firn Press, 1982. Montgomery, John. Kerouac at the Wild Boar. Fels & Firn Press...
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    on its slopes, including the Carstensz Glacier, West Northwall Firn, East Northwall Firn and the recently vanished Meren Glacier in the Meren Valley (meren...
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    layer presses on lower layers, making them denser until they turn into firn. Firn is not dense enough to prevent air from escaping; but at a density of...
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    the snow builds up and becomes dense, well-bonded snow known as perennial firn. Finally, the air passages between snow particles close off and transforms...
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    Stalactites Volcano Phenomena Albedo feedback Black Circle or disc Clear Crystals Firn Fog Frazil Frost Frost heave Frost flower (sea ice) Glaze Hail Hair ice Jacking...
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    koved un rekht. yeder vert bashonkn mit farshtand un gevisn; yeder zol zikh firn mit a tsveytn in a gemit fun brudershaft. German with wording and word order...
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    called firn. Under the pressure of the layers of ice and snow above it, this granular ice fuses into denser firn. Over a period of years, layers of firn undergo...
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    from the north by three notable firns: the Äbeni Flue-Firn, the Gletscherhornfirn, and the Kranzbergfirn. All of these firns have their starting points at...
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  • 11570–11648. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00287. PMC 5599884. PMID 28841019. Firn R (2010). Nature's Chemicals. Oxford: Biology. Ashour, Mohamed; Wink, Michael;...
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    Retrieved October 3, 2010. Kiver, Eugene P.; Mumma, Martin D. (1971). "Summit Firn Caves, Mount Rainier, Washington". Science. 173 (3994): 320–22. Bibcode:1971Sci...
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    Gran Glaciar Norte is the largest ice cap and firn field in México. It is located on Pico de Orizaba (Volcán Citlaltépetl) (5,636 metres (18,491 ft)) which...
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    "Kabru" name is correctly applied to this summit. A substantial "field of firn" measuring about 2 km from north to south, and 1 km from east to west. This...
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    Sinkiang Province. The snow line that separates the snow above from the firn (1 yr old snow) or bare glacier ice below is the equilibrium line altitude...
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    Archived from the original on 30 October 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021. Firn, David (March 1999). "Roslin Institute upset by human cloning suggestions"...
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    Stalactites Volcano Phenomena Albedo feedback Black Circle or disc Clear Crystals Firn Fog Frazil Frost Frost heave Frost flower (sea ice) Glaze Hail Hair ice Jacking...
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