Glacial Budget
- Created by: Alice Cullen
- Created on: 04-01-17 21:24
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- A glacier has a zone of accumulation and a zone of ablation
- Accumulation is the input of snow and ice into the glacier
- You get more accumulation than ablation in the upper part of a glacier - so it's called the Zone of Accumulation
- Ablation is the output of water from a glacier as the ice melts
- You get more ablation than accumulation in the lower part of a glacier - so it's called the Zone of Ablation
- Accumulation is the input of snow and ice into the glacier
- The difference between accumulation and ablation is the glacial budget
- The glacial budget is the difference between total accumulation and total ablation for one year
- The amount of ice in a…
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