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  2. Classifications of snow - Wikipedia

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    Classifications of snow describe and categorize the attributes of snow -generating weather events, including the individual crystals both in the air and on the ground, and the deposited snow pack as it changes over time. Snow can be classified by describing the weather event that is producing it, the shape of its ice crystals or flakes, how it ...

  3. Nebular hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The nebular hypothesis is the most widely accepted model in the field of cosmogony to explain the formation and evolution of the Solar System (as well as other planetary systems). It suggests the Solar System is formed from gas and dust orbiting the Sun which clumped up together to form the planets. The theory was developed by Immanuel Kant and ...

  4. List of RWBY characters - Wikipedia

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    Jinn can answer three questions once a century, only able to answer events that had or are occurring as a manifestation of knowledge. Vol. 6, Ch. 1–2; Ambrosius Voiced by: Valentine Stokes: The being within the Relic of Creation that has an energetic and playful personality. Like Jinn, he stops time for him and whoever summons him.

  5. Snowball Earth - Wikipedia

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    Several unanswered questions remain, including whether Earth was a full "snowball" or a "slushball" with a thin equatorial band of open (or seasonally open) water. The Snowball Earth episodes are proposed to have occurred before the sudden radiations of multicellular bioforms known as the Avalon and Cambrian explosions ; the most recent ...

  6. Formation and evolution of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Formation and evolution of the Solar System. There is evidence that the formation of the Solar System began about 4.6 billion years ago with the gravitational collapse of a small part of a giant molecular cloud. [ 1 ] Most of the collapsing mass collected in the center, forming the Sun, while the rest flattened into a protoplanetary ...

  7. Cryoconite - Wikipedia

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    Cryoconite. A layer of cryoconite on the surface of a glacier. Cryoconite is powdery windblown dust made of a combination of small rock particles, soot and microbes [1] which is deposited and builds up on snow, glaciers, or ice caps. The darkening, especially from small amounts of soot, absorbs solar radiation melting the snow or ice beneath ...

  8. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

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    Future global warming potential for long lived drivers like carbon dioxide emissions is not represented. The scientific community has been investigating the causes of climate change for decades. After thousands of studies, it came to a consensus, where it is "unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land since pre ...

  9. List of poems by Robert Frost - Wikipedia

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    "A Patch of Old Snow" "In the Home Stretch" "The Telephone" "Meeting and Passing" "Hyla Brook" "The Oven Bird" "Bond and Free" "Birches" "Pea Brush" "Putting in the Seed" "A Time to Talk" "The Cow in Apple Time" "An Encounter" "Range-Finding" "Cranberries at Noon" "The Hill Wife" "The Bonfire" "A Girl's Garden" "Locked Out" "The Last Word of a ...