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- Nivation is the set of geomorphic processes ****ociated with snow patches. The primary processes are m**** wasting and the freeze and thaw cycle, in which...
- type of snow can contribute to glacier formation through the process of nivation. Névé that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is...
- particularly dramatic landscape, with up to 90 m (300 ft) deep ravines. Various nivation hollows exists in the vicinity of Kopparhatten. The Kvärkabäcken and Skäralid...
- ac****ulation of snow increases, the snow turns into glacial ice. The process of nivation follows, whereby a hollow in a slope may be enlarged by ice segregation...
- p. St-Onge, D.A., 1969. Nivation landforms. Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Paper 69–30, 12 p. Thorn, C., 1988. Nivation: geomorphic chimera, p. 3-31...
- Chichester, U.K.: 1-42 Ballantyne, C.K. (1978). "The hydrologic significance of nivation features in permafrost areas". Biuletyn Peryglacjalny. 27 (1–2): 5–10....
- annihilator, nihil, nil niv- snow Latin nix, nivis Nevada, névé, nival, nivation, niveus, subnival, subnivean noc- hurt, harm Latin nocere innocence, innocent...
- developing permafrost soils and periglacial landforms such as rock glaciers, nivation hollows, patterned ground, blockfields, solifluction landforms, blockstreams...
- patterns. The main process that creates these ac****ulations is called nivation. It is a complex of processes that includes freeze–thaw action (weathering...
- slopes. Lithalsa – Frost-induced raised land form in permafrost areas Nivation hollow – Geomorphic processes ****ociated with snow patches Palsa – A low...