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GLACIER "CHERILLON"
Risk type: ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
Italy |
| Region: |
Aosta Valley |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Gruppo Velan Broulè e Cervino |
| Municipality: |
Valtournenche |
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| Location: |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.98 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
7.6 E |
| Surface (km2): |
1.15 |
| Lenght (km): |
2.2 |
| Width (km): |
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| Min. altitude (m): |
2595 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3540 |
| Orientation (°) |
180 |
| Slope (°) |
19 |
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EVENT: Date
//1931
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
During the summer a huge ice mass fell under the rock-step on which the glacier leans. |
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Effects: |
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| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Vanni M., 1932 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1931. Bollettino del Comitato Glaciologico Italiano. Serie I. N.12, p. 280-282 |
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EVENT: Date
3/9/1860
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
An ice fall probably occurred in this glacier during a period with heavy precipitations, as some big ice boulders were found after the flood in Châtillon (near St-Clair), transported by Marmore river. |
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Effects: |
Damages related to ice fall are unknown. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Vescoz P. L., 1919 - Phénomènes atmospheriques. Souvenir des principales anomalies du temps, observées en Vallée d'Aoste dans le course su XIX siècle. Bull. Société de la Flore Valdôtaine, n. 13, p. 40. |
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