Steam drilling

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Term: Steam drilling
Definition: A commonly used field technique to drill holes into ice in order to insert stakes for measuring the mass balance (q.v.) of glaciers.  Swisseduc 

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Created 2017.06.06
Last Modified 2022.03.08
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