Sentences with phrase «snow pits dug»

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They would bring back huge blocks of ice and snow to their village on horseback or by boat and place it in large dug out pits where the ice would be packed and insulated with grasses, leaves and furs.

In 1966, a team of U.S. Geological Survey scientists journeyed to two small glaciers in Alaska to dig snow pits needed for measuring snow depth and density at the remote mountainous locations.

Snow pits are dug to measure snowfall.

NCGCP dug more than 100 snow pits to measure bulk density between 1984 and 1986, and found that it ranged from 0.59 - 0.63 Mg / m3.