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GLACIER "CHERILLON"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Cirque glacier
Country:  Italy
Region:  Aosta Valley
Massif/Ice Cap:  Gruppo Velan Broulè e Cervino
Municipality:  Valtournenche
Municipality code:  
Location:  
 
Latitude (°, cent):  45.98 N
Longitude (°, cent):  7.6 E
Surface (km2):  1.15
Lenght (km):  2.2
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  2595
Max. altitude (m):  3540
Orientation (°)  180
Slope (°)  19

EVENT:  Date  //1931 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  During the summer a huge ice mass fell under the rock-step on which the glacier leans.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

Type:  None Description:

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Vanni M., 1932 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1931. Bollettino del Comitato Glaciologico Italiano. Serie I. N.12, p. 280-282

EVENT:  Date  3/9/1860 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
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.
Effects:  Damages related to ice fall are unknown.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

Type:  None Description:

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

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.