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| Type: |
Hanging glacier |
| Country: |
Austria |
| Region: |
Salzburg |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Goldberg mountains |
| Municipality: |
Rauris |
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| Location: |
The glacier is situated in the north face of Sonnblick (3106 m) just underneath the weather observatory. |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
47.05 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
12.95 E |
| Surface (km2): |
0.07 |
| Lenght (km): |
0.4 |
| Width (km): |
0.3 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2500 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
2800 |
| Orientation (°) |
20 |
| Slope (°) |
38 |
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EVENT: Date
12/11/1899
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
In November 1899 a big ice avalanche came down from the glacier towards the "Grieswiestauern" possibly caused by the high pressure of the extreme snow masses fallen the weeks before. |
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Effects: |
pasture land slightly damaged |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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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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v. ARLT,, 1899 - Der Keestrachter Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen. Mitt.d.Deutschen und Österr. Alpenver., Nr.23, S.285. |
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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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