firn

Example Sentences

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Ice and firn, or dense snow leftover from previous seasons, also disappeared from the ridge.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

Depending on the temperature of the water, snow and firn, the meltwater can refreeze and can create ice lenses.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2021

Diffusion of stable isotopes in polar firn and ice: the isotope effect in firn diffusion.

From Nature • Feb. 4, 2018

At the top of the sheet there’s airy snow, known as firn, that fell last year and the year before and the year before that.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

We were on skis, on a good surface of firn, without sastrugi, and solid—that was certain—for five or six thousand feet down.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin