Snow field
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A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain.[1]
Glaciers originate in snowfields. The lower end of a glacier is usually free from snow and névé in summer. In the upper end and above the upper boundary of a glacier, the snow field is an ice field covered with snow. The glacier upper boundary, where it emerges from under a snow field, is ill-defined because of gradual transition.[2]
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Snowfield and neve". AccessScience. doi:10.1036/1097-8542.630200. Retrieved 2020-12-18.
- ^ Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1904) "Geology", p. 258
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