Tho name- "snow mushrooms" is applied bv Dr. Vanghan Cornish, in his recent book on " Waves of Sand and Snow,' to Bomo remarkable snow formations observed by him in travelling through the Selkirk Mountain?, in Western Canada. The railway passes through a pine forest, in which many trees have been cut at a height of about 6ft from the ground. On the tops of the stumps, which are about 2ft in diameter, snow collects in an overhanging cap like that of a mushroom. These caps, which sag at the border, and rise in a dome in the middle, are generally about 9ft in diameter; i.e., they project 3sft bevond the stumps all around. Of hundreds observed by Dr. Cornish, all wero perfect, none having brokon with their own weight. Some of them must weigh more than a ton. ( The whole phenomenon calls for exceptional meteorological conditions, and in this respect is analogous to "mow garlands" j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15646, 27 June 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)
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