snow line
Noun
Meaning
the line on a mountain above which there is perpetual snow and ice
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A few tens kilometers further north the high Himalaya abruptly rise along the Main Central Thrust fault zone above the snow line at convert.
Brown trout can be found in the streams up to the snow line.
Numerous Himalayan peaks rise over convert and the snow line ranges between convert in Sikkim to around convert in Kashmir.
Shoumatoff (2001), 96 The high-altitude Alpine salamanders have adapted to living above the snow line by giving birth to fully developed young rather than laying eggs.
In winter, the snow line is about convert, and it ranges from 1500 metres (4900 feet) up to 2900 metres (9500 feet).
Inland, the snow line in summer is at an altitude of about convert.