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Snow Clearance on Railways
W. K. Wallace
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30 January 2017, pp. 300-306
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The prevention of snow accumulation on the tracks of railways in Great Britain. Various methods of removal, once lines have been blocked, are discussed in the light of the comparatively small snowfalls in the British Isles.

A New Method of Glacier Examination
G. S.
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30 January 2017, p. 37
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It has for some time been obvious that far-reaching results could be obtained by penetrating right through a glacier to its bed. The expense however has always been prohibitive. Recently however Dr. H. Carol, of Zürich, had the ingenious but simple idea of going down through a glacier by means of a glacier pot-hole and has described his experiences in Les Alpes, 1945 (pp. 180–84).

The Cross Sections of Glaciated Valleys
W. V. Lewis
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30 January 2017, pp. 37-38
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The typical U-shaped cross-section of glaciated valleys is well known but little understood. If a climatic change results in a glacier occupying a deep river valley, and some erosion is assumed to occur wherever the ice makes contact with the bedrock, then a partial change from the “V” to “U” section is to be expected. A more potent agency in such a change is probably the sapping of the valley sides by the alternate freezing and thawing of melt-water flowing down to, and under, the glacier. This has been briefly suggested by de Martonne and worked out somewhat more fully in the case of cirques1

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