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Snowpack model showing weak layer
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Inspired by the BBC avalanche documentary I contacted the SLF and they kindly provided some data for 3d printing a section of snowpack showing a weak layer:



SLF wrote:
The layer is a weak layer in the pack. The large faceted plate-like structures are surface hoar sandwiched between "rounded grains". Because the thermal conductivity of surface hoar is small, faceting continues even after burial.


What the model shows very well is the empty space created between the large faceted crystals as small crystals have transform.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

@AndAnotherThing.., interesting. What scale is your model?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

@Inboard, The physical size of the one in the photo is 70mm tall. That was scaled up from original cad of 7mm tall.

I don't know for sure if 7mm was original scan size or not.
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a photo of the same thing

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