SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



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Slush and Sludge Begins to Form 



•'iGPRB 3. — The initial staues in tlie freezing of sea watei-. Slusli and sludge of 

 sonpy consistency is forming in the spaces between the old glagons. (Photograph 

 liy H. G. Ponting in the Scientific Reports of the British Antarctic Expedition.) 



Young 



I'.i UE 4. — Glagons of young ice which will soon cement together again in a con- 

 tinuous sheet with the further advance of winter temperatures. The several small 

 circular cakes with the raised rims which compose the glagons are called pancake 

 ice from their close resemblance to " pancakes.'' This form represents the inter- 

 mediate step in ice formation between slush and young ice. (Photograph by 

 H. G. Ponting in the Scientific Reports of the British Antarctic Expedition, i 



