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ablation of ice sheets
- In glacier: Ablation
…a dark, silty material called cryoconite, once thought to be of cosmic origin but now known to be largely terrestrial dust. The vertical melting of the holes is due to the absorption of solar radiation by the dark silt, possibly augmented by biological activity.
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