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Referee's report by Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'The flow law of ice from measurements in glacier tunnels, laboratory experiments and the Jungfraufirn borehole experiment' by John Frederick Nye

Reference number: RR/79/109

Date: 17 May 1953

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A99

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Stoneley remarks 'the ice is assumed incomprehensible', and comments on the mathematics.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/79/109
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17 May 1953
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Robert Stoneley, Referee's report by Robert Stoneley, on a paper 'The flow law of ice from measurements in glacier tunnels, laboratory experiments and the Jungfraufirn borehole experiment' by John Frederick Nye, 17 May 1953, RR/79/109, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_109/referees-report-by-robert-stoneley-on-a-paper-the-flow-law-of-ice-from-measurements-in-glacier-tunnels-laboratory-experiments-and-the-jungfraufirn-borehole-experiment-by-john-frederick-nye, accessed on 10 February 2026

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