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subdivide glaciers into glacier accumulation zones, based on the melting and refreezing occurring. These zones include the dry snow zone, in which the ice entirely retains subfreezing temperatures and no melting occurs. Dry snow zones only occur within the interior regions of the
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zone, where some meltwater penetrates down into the glacier where it refreezes. In the wet snow zone, all the seasonal snow melts. The meltwater either percolates into the depths of the glacier or flows down-glacier where it might refreeze as superimposed ice. A glacier's
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counteracting. With successive years in which accumulation exceeds ablation, then a glacier will experience positive
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183:The Physics of Glaciers
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164:Journal of Glaciology
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122:percolation
67:avalanching
59:water vapor
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806:Kame delta
758:Till plain
555:Jökulhlaup
513:Starvation
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306:Ice stream
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145:References
118:ice sheets
115:Antarctica
93:, and its
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588:Erosional
580:Landforms
451:Processes
432:Randkluft
427:Penitente
372:Dirt cone
301:Ice shelf
296:Ice sheet
291:Ice field
111:Greenland
75:meltwater
873:Category
848:Category
786:Diluvium
781:Alpentor
690:U-valley
534:Ice core
503:Plucking
458:Ablation
442:Terminus
367:Crevasse
362:Blue ice
262:Glaciers
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133:See also
95:terminus
87:ablation
55:rime ice
728:Moraine
718:Drumlin
645:Nunatak
508:Retreat
473:Calving
417:Moraine
402:Icefall
340:Anatomy
311:Ledoyom
286:Ice cap
63:glacier
61:on the
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665:Suncup
650:P-form
600:Cirque
483:Motion
422:Moulin
281:Cirque
276:Aufeis
36:Alaska
791:Esker
620:Fjord
595:ArĂȘte
518:Surge
478:Creep
437:SĂ©rac
269:Types
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853:List
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670:Tarn
570:Tuya
377:Firn
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