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Peculiar Ice Forms

Nature volume 31, pages 5–6 (1884)Cite this article

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WALKING up from Chamounix to the Montanvert a fortnight, ago, I came upon a form of ice which I think can hardly be of common occurrence, as I have not met with any description of it, and have only once before seen it, and then also on the same mountain side, and under similar conditions of season and weather.

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SMITH, B. Peculiar Ice Forms. Nature 31, 5–6 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031005c0

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