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Stock Frost or Ground Ice

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DURING the recent frosty weather the subject of what is locally called “stock frost” has been much to the front in this neighbourhood. This phenomenon is known to the scientific world, I believe, as “ground ice,” and the circumstances in which it appears and disappears present to the ordinary observer a very great many puzzling features.

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HAMPSON, J. Stock Frost or Ground Ice . Nature 77, 295 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077295b0

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