The ablation zone is found at the lowest altitude of the glacier, where ablation of material is lesser than accumulation.
Ablation zone or ablation area refers to the low-altitude area of a glacier or ice sheet below firn with a net loss in ice mass due to melting, sublimation, evaporation, ice calving, aeolian processes like blowing snow, avalanche, and any other ablation. The equilibrium line altitude (ELA) or snow line separates the ablation zone from the higher-altitude accumulation zone. The ablation zone often contains meltwater features such as supraglacial lakes, englacial streams, and subglacial lakes. Sediments dropped in the ablation zone forming small mounds or hillocks are called kames. Kame and kettle hole topography is useful in identifying an ablation zone of a glacier. The seasonally melting glacier deposits much sediment at its fringes in the ablation area. Ablation constitutes a key part of the glacier mass balance.
The amount of snow and ice gained in the accumulation zone and the amount of snow and ice lost in the ablation zone determine glacier mass balance. Often mass balance measurements are made in the ablation zone using snow stakes.
ablation. The equilibrium line altitude (ELA) or snow line separates the ablationzone from the higher-altitude accumulation zone. The ablationzone often...
components of an organism. Biological ablation is the removal of a biological structure or functionality. Genetic ablation is another term for gene silencing...
glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, (melting, evaporation,...
depth of the ablation (in micrometres) per diopter of refractive change is equal to the square of the diameter of the optical ablationzone measured in...
glacier, the accumulation zone is the area above the firn line, where snowfall accumulates and exceeds the losses from ablation, (melting, evaporation,...
own weight. A glacier forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. It acquires distinguishing features,...
snowfall which occurs in the accumulation zone of a glacier, as compared to the amount that is melted in the ablationzone. The position of a glacier terminus...
Subglacial water dynamics Ablation Wastage of the glacier through sublimation, ice melting and iceberg calving. Ablationzone Area of a glacier in which...
of transition between the accumulation zone and ablationzone. It is the line where the mass of these two zones is equal. Depending on the thickness of...
A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between...
research purposes in 2009, solely for the surgical ablation of soft tissue tumors. Cancerous tissue ablation via IRE appears to show significant cancer specific...
flows from a high elevation plateau or basin accumulation zone to a lower valley ablationzone. Much larger icefalls may be found in the outlet glaciers...
This debris can accumulate due to ice flow toward the surface in the ablationzone, melting of surface ice or from debris that falls onto the glacier from...
from the Kanchenjunga slopes. The lower 18 km of the glacier is an ablationzone where melting is immense. Recent studies have shown that between 2000...
from its source. This takes place in the ablationzone, which is the part of the glacier where the rate of ablation (removal of ice by evaporation, melting...
snow packs and frozen rivers melt with rising temperatures, and in the ablationzone of glaciers where the rate of snow cover is reducing. Meltwater can...
healing process. Night halos are seen more often in revisions with small ablationzone size. With more recent developments in laser technology, this is less...
into three sections and the lower ablationzone at 6,400 ft (2,000 m) is not connected to the upper accumulation zone at 7,800 ft (2,400 m). List of glaciers...
glacier snowline (ELA) as altitude limit between glacier feeding area and ablationzone has run in these mountains between 1450 and 1250 m asl. This corresponds...
is necessary for treatment. Wavefront customization of ablation increases the depth of ablation because additional corneal tissue must be ablated to compensate...
ablation season yield consistent values for a particular area on temperate alpine glaciers and need not be measured every year. In the ablationzone,...
between the formation of sporadic E and iron/magnesium meteor ablation in the ablationzone, 100 to 140 km above the earth surface. Maruyama discusses this...
transverse crevasses are formed along which ice blocks have broken down. The ablationzone of the Gangotri glacier is covered by a thick pile of supraglacial moraines...
following is a list of episodes from the USA Network original series The Dead Zone. The series premiered on June 16, 2002, and ended on September 16, 2007,...
surveys revealed that the rate of loss of ice in both the ablationzone and the accumulation zone of Brown Glacier was more than double average rate measured...
precipitation in the accumulation zone exceeds the quantity of glacial ice lost due to melting or in the ablationzone a glacier will advance. If the accumulation...
Laser ablation: Under direct visualization through a hysteroscope, lasers are used to vaporize and ablate the endometrium. Rollerball ablation: Under...
ice that is falling in the accumulation zone is less than that which is lost each year in the ablationzone. Between 1908 and 1984, the glacier experienced...
ranging from clean ice in the accumulation zone to extensive debris cover areas in the lower ablationzone. A small deposit of antimony ore is known to...
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