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GLACIER "GEMELLI DI BAN"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
Italy |
| Region: |
Piemonte |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Arbola |
| Municipality: |
Formazza |
| Municipality code: |
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| Location: |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
6.068 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
8.36567 E |
| Surface (km2): |
0.48 |
| Lenght (km): |
1.1 |
| Width (km): |
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| Min. altitude (m): |
2620 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
2890 |
| Orientation (°) |
360 |
| Slope (°) |
11 |
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EVENT: Date
/10/1971
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Emptying of the proglacial lake, through the morain. Water reached its maximum level in August. At the date of the event the lake was already iced (some cm of thickness).
The author notice that another similar event occurred also some years before. |
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Effects: |
Floating icebergs were spread on the morain in front of the glacier. |
| 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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Silvestri P., 1971 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica Italiana 1971 Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie Ii, N.19, p. 123. |
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