Snow field

The lower end of a glacier is usually free from snow and névé in summer.

In the upper end and above the upper boundary of a glacier, the snow field is an ice field covered with snow.

The glacier upper boundary, where it emerges from under a snow field, is ill-defined because of gradual transition.

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Meltwater from snowfields fill tarns on Mount Rainier .