Névé-Capped Snow Pillars Resulting from Ablation on Teton Glacier, Wyoming

Autor:	Roald Fryxell
Rok vydání:	1965
Předmět:	010506 paleontology geography geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences medicine.medical_treatment Glacier Snow Ablation 01 natural sciences medicine Geomorphology Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes
Zdroj:	Journal of Glaciology. 5:727-734
ISSN:	1727-5652 0022-1430
DOI:	10.3189/s0022143000018724
Popis:	Névé-capped snow pillars found on Teton Glacier in August 1956 were formed in the same manner as the ice cones of glacier tables, the névé acting in this instance as the protective cover usually provided by slabs of rock. Measurements of the largest pillar indicate a minimum ablation of 6.5 ft. (1.98 m.) of snow on the surface of Teton Glacier for that summer up to 7 August, and suggest an average rate of snow wastage of 1.5 in. (3.8 cm.) per day during this time. The pillars appear to have been produced by ablation through melting due primarily to direct radiation but supplemented by indirect radiation and conduction-convection influenced by air currents moving across the surface of the glacier.
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