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GLACIER "MARZELLFERNER"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)

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Type:  Valley glacier
Country:  Austria
Region:  Tyrol
Massif/Ice Cap:  Ötztaler Alps
Municipality:  Ötz
Municipality code:  
Location:  The glacier is situated in the Upper Ötztal valley (Venter valley) north of Similaun (3599 m). In 1850 it was connected with Schalfferner.
 
Latitude (°, cent):  46.8 N
Longitude (°, cent):  10.92 E
Surface (km2):  5.1
Lenght (km):  4.5
Width (km):  1.8
Min. altitude (m):  2450
Max. altitude (m):  3620
Orientation (°)  10
Slope (°)  16

EVENT:  Date  24/8/1932 -  Date quality:   
Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  The tongue of the glacier was connected with the tongue of Schalfglacier up to 1920. In 1924 they already had a distance of about 100 meters. Between the two tongues a sander area started to develope and got bigger until 1932. Belowe the debris and gravel of the sander a lot of dead ice had been conservated covered by a lake of melting water. In 1933 the water broke through the lake ground an ran out through a 10 meter deep canyon and an icetunnel.
Effects:  unknown
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 

PGHM Chamonix, 0 - adjudant Oustry
R.T.M Annecy, 0 - Archives du service
SRBIK, R.V, 1935 - Der Stausee des Schalfferners (Ötztaler Alpen). Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde, XXII. Bd. (1935), S. 214-217.
SRBIK, R.V, 1935 - Das Stauseebecken des Schalfferners (Ötztaler Alpen) 1934 Zschr. f. Gletscherkunde, XXIII. Bd. (1935).
SRBIK, R.V, 1949 - Besondere Verfallserscheinungen an einigen Ötztaler Gletschern 1932-1945 Veröffentlichungen des Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. Bd. 26, Jg.1946, S.83-95.