SLEET STORM IN THE OZARK REGION OF MISSOURI 
E. E. BUCKLEY. 
When in Wisconsin a number of years ago I had the good 
fortune to observe and record a most interesting case of the 
formation of ice ramparts as a result of the expansion of the 
ice sheets covering the lakes in the vicinity of Madison. The 
results of the simple expansion of the ice sheets, as illustrated 
by photographs taken at that time, were most surprising, to one 
who had never seen these forces at work.* 
Many times prior to and during the period of my connection 
with the Wisconsin Geological Survey, my attention was di¬ 
rected to the so-called “wind falls” in the tamarack swamps 
of the northern part of the state. In some instances, these 
trees were probably felled by wind storms, but where they lay 
piled like jack straws, with their tops pointing in every direc¬ 
tion, the cause must have been other than wind, probably snow 
and ice. 
On the 19th and 20th of November, 1906, a belt of about 
100 miles southeast and northwest across the Ozark plateau 
was visited with a sleet storm of remarkable severity. I had 
occasion to see the results of this storm in the pinery region of 
St. Francis county, Missouri, and in the more settled area of 
Phelps county in the neighborhood of Holla. As in the case 
of the ice ramparts, one could scarcely believe, unless he had 
been an eye witness, that a sleet storm could prove such an 
active geological agent of destruction. 
* See. “Ice Ramparts” by E. R. Buckley, Wisconsin Academy of Sci¬ 
ences, Arts and Letters, Yol. XIII, pp. 141 to 162. 
