Snowdrifts around buildings and stores
The spade, or snow shovel, is an item of equipment required by any community living in the snow, particularly in the accumulation area of an ice sheet, where any object placed on the snow is eventually buried beneath a continually rising surface. Roald Amundsen, Alfred Wegener, R. E. Byrd, A. R. Gle...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400046325 2024-03-03T08:38:22+00:00 Snowdrifts around buildings and stores Roots, E. F. Swithinbank, C. W. M. 1955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400046325 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400046325 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 7, issue 50, page 380-387 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1955 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400046325 2024-02-08T08:38:37Z The spade, or snow shovel, is an item of equipment required by any community living in the snow, particularly in the accumulation area of an ice sheet, where any object placed on the snow is eventually buried beneath a continually rising surface. Roald Amundsen, Alfred Wegener, R. E. Byrd, A. R. Glen and others have described the hours and sometimes days spent by members of their expeditions moving snow by hand. The Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52 was no exception. Some shovelling is unavoidable, being a consequence of natural accumulation, but much results from the burial of stores and equipment under snowdrifts caused either by the objects themselves or by their neighbours. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Ice Sheet Polar Record Cambridge University Press Antarctic Byrd Polar Record 7 50 380 387 |
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The spade, or snow shovel, is an item of equipment required by any community living in the snow, particularly in the accumulation area of an ice sheet, where any object placed on the snow is eventually buried beneath a continually rising surface. Roald Amundsen, Alfred Wegener, R. E. Byrd, A. R. Glen and others have described the hours and sometimes days spent by members of their expeditions moving snow by hand. The Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52 was no exception. Some shovelling is unavoidable, being a consequence of natural accumulation, but much results from the burial of stores and equipment under snowdrifts caused either by the objects themselves or by their neighbours. |
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