| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
France |
| Region: |
Haute Savoie |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Mont Blanc |
| Municipality: |
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| Location: |
This glacier is placed under the Aiguille of the Tour, and it looks directly on the valley of Chamonix, at the same level as the village of the Tour |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.979 |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
6.949 |
| Surface (km2): |
8.5 |
| Lenght (km): |
4.7 |
| Width (km): |
2.4 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
1800 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3700 |
| Orientation (°) |
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| Slope (°) |
22 |
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EVENT: Date
14/8/1949
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
a big part of the terminal tongue of the glacier came unhooked. The volume of moving ice has been estimated between 0,5 and 2 millions m3. A volume of 1 million m3 seems to be reasonable |
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Effects: |
although the fall hadn’t led to material damage, it led the death of 6 persons who were picnicking below |
| Deaths(#) |
6 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
The global quality of the information is good, because this tragic event has been related several times |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Glaister,R.M., 1951 - The ice slide on the glacier du Tour Journal of glaciology, 1, (9), p.508-509 |
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Guichonnet, P., 1950 - La catastrophe du glacier du Tour Revue de géographie alpine, XXXVIII(1), p.198-201 |
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Lliboutry, L., 1971 - Les catastrophes glaciaires La Recherche, 2, (12), p.417-425 |
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Lliboutry, L. et al., 1965 - Traité de glaciologie Tome II. Masson, p.622 |
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Mougin, M.P, 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, p.169 |
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Tufnell, L., 1984 - Glacier Hazards London and New York. Longman, 97p. |
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Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.348-349 |
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