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GLACIER "PLANPINCIEUX"
Risk type: glacier flood and ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
Italy |
| Region: |
Aosta Valley |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Monte Bianco |
| Municipality: |
Courmayeur |
| Municipality code: |
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| Location: |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.88 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
6.99 E |
| Surface (km2): |
1.327 |
| Lenght (km): |
2.45 |
| Width (km): |
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| Min. altitude (m): |
2345 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3660 |
| Orientation (°) |
180 |
| Slope (°) |
30 |
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EVENT: Date
/8/1984
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Emptying of an internal water pocket. |
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Effects: |
Road and bridge damaged. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
Roads |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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, - Dal Molin (personal communication). |
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EVENT: Date
21/12/1952
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
An enormous avalanche covered a distance of 4000 m (horizontal projection), and a difference of altitude of 3000 m.
The avalanche originated itself from the high ridge of Grandes Jorasses, sweeping the below glaciers and causing the collapse of Planpincieux snout. |
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Effects: |
Buildings were damaged.
The accumulation of ice formed a small glacier below the snout of Planpincieux glacier, around 2000 m of altitude, that survived also during the warm summers of 1950's. In the 1960's, thanks to an increment of snow and ice accumulation, this small glacier increased reaching the lowest altitude of 1800 m. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
Buildings |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Cerutti A. V., 1953 - La frana di Chamin e la valanga di Planpincieux. Rivista Club Alpino It. N.72, p. 236-238 |
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Cerutti A. V., 1971 - Relazioni sulla campagna glaciologica 1971 Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 19, p. 98-99 |
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EVENT: Date
17/6/1929
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Emptying of an internal water pocket, that occurred in the morning. The water flow covered a distance of about 13 km, and the wave in Dora Baltea river was observed also at Morgex. |
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Effects: |
The mass of water, mud, and rocks, burst through the small valley of Montita stream (the bed of which was largely modified, enlarged till 80 m), spreading in the wood between Montita and Meyen; the street of Val Ferret was damaged, and a bridge was swept away. Somewhere the flood eroded alluvial soils along Dora di Ferret river. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
Farmland, fertile land |
Description: |
| Type: |
Roads |
Description: |
| Type: |
Trees |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1930 - Relazione sulla campagna glaciologica 1929 Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie I, n. 10, p. 238-239. |
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Sestini A., 1930 - Osservazioni e ricerche sulle valli di Courmayeur Memorie Geologiche e Geografiche di Giotto Dainelli. N. 1, p. 257-258. |
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