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What happens to snowflakes as they become progressively buried within glaciers?

What happens to snowflakes as they become progressively buried within glaciers?
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What happens to snowflakes as they become progressively buried within glaciers?

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They either become interlocking crystals of ice, or they can become bluish because of trapped air.
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They become interlocking crystals of ice and they can become bluish because of trapped air.
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