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snow line
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point above which snow and ice cover the ground throughout the year
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- boundary
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- Cotopaxi volcano 2008-06-27T1322.jpg
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- facet of
- snow
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- Snow line
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Encyclopedic overview
The climatic snow line is the boundary between a snow-covered and snow-free surface. The actual snow line may adjust seasonally, and be either significantly higher in elevation, or lower. The permanent snow line is the level above which snow will lie all year.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “snow line” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.