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On hollow spiral prismatic crystals of ice on the surface of snow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. Leigh Fermor*
Affiliation:
Geological Survey of India

Extract

Last winter I enjoyed the good fortune of spending some three months at Zweisimmen in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland, in order to participate in the winter sports. Happily it proved a fine, cold winter of hard frosts and moderately heavy total snowfall. During such a stay in the crisp, dry cold of a snow-mantled world, the manifold and beautiful forms assumed by snow and ice are set before one in a manner impossible in this relatively warm and moist isle with its fleeting glimpses of true wintry weather.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1914

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page 151 note 1 Temperatures as low as -12° to -17° C. at 8 a.m. were common at Zweisimmen, which lies in a valley at only 945 metres, or roughly 3,000 feet, above sea-level. It may be presumed that still lower temperatures would be recorded onthe surrounding mountains.

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