MUD GLACIERS.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 July 1918, Page 3

MUD GLACIERS.

Extract from letters from an oflicer of engineers in Southern Macedonia, dated 14th April, 1918:——“I had ,0 a two-days’ trip into the hills some days ago, but not so far as I will be going later on. It is very interesting ,country——-steep hills up to‘ 10,000 feet‘ in heights, narrow valleys, with fasti flowing rivers, but strange to say, not rocks anywhere The hills are of earth) and clay‘ with the result {that the: [rivers change their courses and bring Idown masses of hillside as you watch. ‘Landslides are common, and I saw} from the distance a thing I will make a closer examination of later on——«a mud glacier. Small glaciers are quite common, but the one in question is -of quite a respeetable- size, and progress-I es down the valley chiefly in wet wea-' ther. If you throw a big stone on to any of the small mud slides it goes in with a ‘plop’ and disappears. They are, of course, impassable for ordinary! purposes. Some of "the valleys are just notches with clifif sides of clay,‘ ready to come down inlbig lumps, and block and divert the rivers.