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THE following is extracted from a letter dated Dubbo Creek, near Tumut, New South Wales, July 26, 1891:—
“I noticed the other day a strange effect caused by the late very hard frosts. It was a peculiar upheaval of the crust of the ground by a mass of innumerable threads of ice taking the form of spun glass or fine asbestos fibre. There were five layers of this ice-fibre, the uppermost bearing the raised earth-crust. Every night's frost was shown by its distinctive layer of fibres.
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WHITE, A. Unusual Frost Phenomenon. Nature 44, 519 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/044519e0
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