snow surface on ice sheets...wind, or very hard packed and rough when high winds occur during or after snowfall. Two features are prominent: snow dunes are depositional features resembling sand dunes in their several shapes; sastrugi are jagged erosional features (often cut into snow dunes) caused by strong prevailing winds that occur after snowfall. Sharp, rugged sastrugi, which can be one to two metres high, make...
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