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Page 115
... mass of snow or ice on the land that persists for many years constitutes stationary ice sheets or moving glaciers . Perennial ice masses range in size from the Antarctic Ice Sheet to small pockets of ice less than a square kilometre in ...
... mass of snow or ice on the land that persists for many years constitutes stationary ice sheets or moving glaciers . Perennial ice masses range in size from the Antarctic Ice Sheet to small pockets of ice less than a square kilometre in ...
Page 179
... mass bal- ance is positive year after year . Here the glacier would become thicker and thicker were it not for the compen- sating flow of ice away from the glacier . This flow also supplies mass to the ablation area to compensate for ...
... mass bal- ance is positive year after year . Here the glacier would become thicker and thicker were it not for the compen- sating flow of ice away from the glacier . This flow also supplies mass to the ablation area to compensate for ...
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... mass , elec- tron , spark emission , Mössbauer , and nuclear magnetic resonance ( see below ) . Other instruments based on the principles of gas chromatography , micromeritics ( see be- low ) , physical chemistry , magnetic ...
... mass , elec- tron , spark emission , Mössbauer , and nuclear magnetic resonance ( see below ) . Other instruments based on the principles of gas chromatography , micromeritics ( see be- low ) , physical chemistry , magnetic ...
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