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Ice growth on a glacier is what remains of snow over one year. I don't know proper english jargon, but glaciers usually accumulate snow from around october to j
by rmu09 8y ago
Ice growth on a glacier is what remains of snow over one year. I don't know proper english jargon, but glaciers usually accumulate snow from around october to june. June to october is the melting period.
Obvious: glacier growing means it accumulates more snow (that will slowly convert into solid ice) than is melting in the summer.
- saiya-jin 8y agoExactly, there is no magic - all the ice is just snowfall compressed over time, by its own weight and melting/refreeze cycles. This autumn has been really great for outdoors but disastrous to glaciers - extremely warm till end of october, no precipitation at all for more than a month.