The Medulla Oblongata's General Functions. Whereas the pons is located in the upper part of the brainstem, the medulla oblongata is a structure located in the lower half of the brainstem. Just because the medulla oblongata is beneath the pons, doesn't mean it's any less significant. In fact, they often work in tandem on issues such as breathing.
Cirrus are detached clouds in the form of white, delicate filaments or white or mostly white patches or narrow bands. These clouds have a fibrous (hair-like) appearance, or a silky sheen, or both. Cirrus clouds are composed almost exclusively of ice crystals. These crystals are in general very small, a fact, which together with their sparseness, accounts for the semi-transparency of most cirrus clouds.
Answers. Best Answer: The altitude and therefore, the temperature, together with the age of the cloud, decides if it is made of ice crystals, water droplets or, both. High clouds only made of ice crystals are called cirrus clouds. Those are the left-overs of strong convection bringing moisture all the way to the tropopause, which is the top of the troposphere. Sometimes, cirrus even escape from the troposphere into the stratosphere.