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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2017

Richard Spence Taylor
Richard Spence Taylor*
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University of Minnesota, College of Science, Literature, and the Arts, Minneapolis
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Journal of Glaciology , Volume 2 , Issue 17 , 1955, pp. 507
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Copyright © International Glaciological Society 1955

Sir,

With reference to the note concerning “Glacierization” (this Journal, No. 16, p. 378):

  1. If the term “glacierization” is unnecessary any proposed simplification is equally unnecessary.

  2. If the many somewhat cumbersome terms originally devised to express useful concepts are to be changed in favor of “clarification.and simplicity,” much of our familiar terminology will require change.

  3. Such changes would not eliminate the older forms from vocabularies or the literature, for the older forms must still be defined.

  4. The term “glacierization” expresses a specific and useful concept and should be retained.