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GeoWord of the Day

The GeoWord of the Day is a free service of the American Geosciences Institute. All of the terms and definitions are from the Glossary of Geology, 5th Edition Revised.

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stratification [snow]   Layering in a mass of snow, firn, or ice; it is caused by discontinuous deposition, by sedimentation of different kinds of snow, by accumulation of rock dust during summer periods, or by the development of layers of depth hoar at times of rapid changes in temperature.

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