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    {
        "id": "authors:jm9c7-3d977",
        "collection": "authors",
        "collection_id": "jm9c7-3d977",
        "cite_using_url": "https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140429-160819378",
        "type": "book_section",
        "title": "The densification and diagenesis of snow",
        "author": [
            {
                "family_name": "Anderson",
                "given_name": "Don L.",
                "clpid": "Anderson-D-L"
            },
            {
                "family_name": "Benson",
                "given_name": "Carl S.",
                "clpid": "Benson-C-S"
            }
        ],
        "contributor": [
            {
                "family_name": "Kingery",
                "given_name": "W. D.",
                "clpid": "Kingery-W-D"
            }
        ],
        "abstract": "The Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets are monomineralic\nrock formations, primarily metamorphic, but with sedimentary\nveneers . The metamorphic part consists of glacier ice that has\nbeen metamorphosed primarily by flow caused by unbalanced\nstresses. The sedimentary veneer has a maximum thickness of\nabout 90 meters and consists of snow and firn. This paper is\nconcerned with diagenetic processes occurring within the sedimentary\nveneer, causing evolution of loose snow to glacier ice.\nThis diagenesis constitutes one step in the over-all balance\nbetween accumulation at the snow surface and loss of ice by\nflow within the metamorphic part of the ice sheet. Although the\ndiscussion is based partly on field observations from Greenland,\nit deals with the general problem of snow densification; indeed,\nthe results are not completely limited to rocks composed of ice\nbut apply in part to the over-all diagenesis of unconsolidated\nsediments into consolidated sedimentary rock.",
        "publisher": "MIT Press",
        "publication_date": "1963"
    }
]