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GLACIER "COUPE' DI MONEY"
Risk type: ice avalanches

Glacier list | Statistics
 

Type:  Ice sheet
Country:  Italy
Region:  Aosta Valley
Massif/Ice Cap:  Gran Paradiso
Municipality:  Cogne
Municipality code:  
Location:  
 
Latitude (°, cent):  45.54 N
Longitude (°, cent):  7.34 E
Surface (km2):  1.897
Lenght (km):  2.25
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  2670
Max. altitude (m):  3620
Orientation (°)  315
Slope (°)  24

EVENT:  Date  //1931 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  A great collapse formed an accumulation of ice and debris, encumbering and damming the ground under the hanging snout of the glacier: as a consequence, a small ice-dammed lake formed.
Effects:  Formation of a small lake, that will be quickly filled in the following years.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

Type:  None Description:

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Peretti L., 1932 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1931. Bollettino del Comitato Glaciologico Italiano. Serie prima. N.12, p.271
Peretti L., 1935 - I ghiacciai del gruppo del Gran Paradiso nella Valle della Grand'Eiva. Bollettino del Comitato Glaciologico Italiano. Serie prima. N.15, p. 119
Peretti L., 1935 - Les lacs de barrage glaciaire et le vidage du Lac de Galambra. Revue de Géographie Alpine. XXIII, p. 643.