Abstract
ALTHOUGH ice-caves and their phenomena present some of the most interesting problems in the whole range of physical geography, it is singular to note how comparatively little attention has been directed to their investigation, and how inadequate still is the sum total of observation and experiment hitherto carried out, for the full elucidation of the many questions which arise in connection with their study. A recent investigator in this field of research is Dr. Hans Lohmann, who, in an admirable treatise on cave-ice (“Das Höhleneis unter besonderer Berücksichtigung einiger Eishöhlen des Erzgebirges,” Jena, 1895), has brought together the results of previous work on the subject, and incorporated an account of his own observations in the ice-caves of Saxony. It is here only possible to set forth in the merest outline some of the more interesting facts connected with these natural ice-stores, and to indicate in brief the theories that have been advanced to account for some of their phenomena.
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K., F. The Origin and Occurrence of Cave-Ice . Nature 61, 591–592 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061591a0
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