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GLACIER "SCHALFFERNER"
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 mountains
Municipality:  Ötz
Municipality code:  
Location:  The glacier is situated in the Upper Ötztal valley (Venter valley) north of Hintere Schwärze (3624 m). In 1850 it was connected with Mazellglacier.
 
Latitude (°, cent):  46,8 N
Longitude (°, cent):  10,92 E
Surface (km2):  8,6
Lenght (km):  5,7
Width (km):  3,9
Min. altitude (m):  2480
Max. altitude (m):  3500
Orientation (°)  340
Slope (°)  11,5

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 Marzellglacier 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 

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.