The hardness of ice increases with decreasing temperature until at-50 degrees it has a hardness of about 6. No doubt then at low temperatures snow possesses the physical properties required for corrasion effects even on hard rocks. Certain polished surfaces and mushroom-shaped rocks in glacial regions may well be due to wind-blown snow.
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Curt Teichert (1939) studied this question.