Shoveling my driveway today, I observed several decades of
annual snowfall accumulations, based upon the strata with the characteristic density differences indicating the annual temperature cycle.
The site was selected after several years of searching because of the depth of the ice sheet there (nearly 3,500 meters) and relatively high
annual snowfall accumulations.
Not exact matches
Like a glacier, an ice sheet forms through the
accumulation of
snowfall, when
annual snowfall exceeds
annual snowmelt.