Glaciers are open systems, with snow as the system's input and meltwater as the system's main output.
冰川是开放系统,雪是系统的输入,融水是系统的主要输出。
With additional time, pressure, and refrozen meltwater from above, the small firn granules become larger, interlocked crystals of blue glacial ice.
随着时间的推移,压力的增加,再加上从上方重新冻结的融水,小冰原颗粒成为相互锁结的大晶体蓝色冰川冰。
Here water may be stored in ice form for hundreds or even hundreds of thousands of years before being released again into the liquid water system as meltwater.