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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 456 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVE, or FIRN , the name given to the partly consolidated masses of See also:snow and See also:ice which See also:form in the hollows on the sides of mountains below the See also:belt of freshly fallen snow and just above the compact See also:glacier-ice. The neve, which generally consists of broad sheets of See also:great beauty, is formed from the freshly fallen snow during a See also:series of alternate thaws and frosts. These processes are accompanied by a See also:gradual descent down the See also:mountain See also:side, during which the neve suffers consolidation, until it becomes compact glacier-ice. The neve is thus the feeding ground of the glacier (q.v.).

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