. British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, under the command of Shackleton : reports on the scientific investigations ; geology. ^ Fig. 4. COAST AT CAPE BARNE Showing cliffs (of basalt) 300 feet high, the result of marine erosion Fig. 3. FLAGSTAFF POINT Cape Royds, a bluff of kenyte lava about 80 feet high, showing results of marine erosion [Photo by David ITofacej). 202 THAW 203 of 1908, the snow, 2 feet from the rock, was converted into a coarse-grained neve,graduating into ice as the rock was approached, and before the end of Novembera small rivulet was seen flowing from underneath the dr
. British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, under the command of Shackleton : reports on the scientific investigations ; geology. ^ Fig. 4. COAST AT CAPE BARNE Showing cliffs (of basalt) 300 feet high, the result of marine erosion Fig. 3. FLAGSTAFF POINT Cape Royds, a bluff of kenyte lava about 80 feet high, showing results of marine erosion [Photo by David ITofacej). 202 THAW 203 of 1908, the snow, 2 feet from the rock, was converted into a coarse-grained neve,graduating into ice as the rock was approached, and before the end of Novembera small rivulet was seen flowing from underneath the drift, whilst the surface, exceptnear the edges, seemed to have remained comparatively unaffected. At Cape Royds, as observed at the Stranded Moraines later on, there was aperiodicity in the thaw which was not governed by the amount of suns heat somuch as by the complete, or almost complete, removal of the smaller snow-drifts, andthe necessary lull until the snow-drifts had been renewed by a drift-laden blizzard ora snowstorm. Our observations of thaw at Cape Royds are naturally somewhatincomplete, as after December 1, 1908, t
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