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Taking What You Can Get

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Ice, Rock, and Beauty
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The picture is grainy. It could be an enlarged photo of distant airplane vapor trails, or, slightly more fancifully, a negative image of telephone wires in a snowy sky. It could be quite an old picture, and indeed it is, having been taken on January 23, 1986.

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(2008). Taking What You Can Get. In: Ice, Rock, and Beauty. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73103-2_55

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