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Booker Bense wrote:
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AES wrote:
Anyone have pointers to more formal studies of these stratigraphic
records?

Ask in sci.geo.geology and sci.geo.hydrology.

The evolution of the snowpack over the season is the basis of all
avalanche hazard estimation. The "standard" reference book there
is "The Avalanche Handbook".

In terms of other fields, most of that kind of analysis of the
snowpack happens in the Antarctic. There was an PBS show a few
years back of a climb of a new route on Mt. Vinson in the
antarctic w/Jon Krackuar where digging snow pits and examining
the layers was part of the expedition.

UNR has Tahoe records which should go back the late 1890s when they
started using the Rose Snow Sampler. There's a national repository of
ice cores near Boulder.

It depends what one wants to do with stratigraphy. Most people think
chemistry, but others do physics. Still others do other things.
CA DWR holds lots of stuff. The old project I worked on is still around.

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