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GLACIER "GLACIER DU MULINET"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Cirque glacier
Country:  France
Region:  Savoie
Massif/Ice Cap:  Vanoise
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Location:  Glacier situated under the Roc of the Mulinet and the Pointe of Grand Méan. It looks directly on the small valley of the Mulinet.
 
Latitude (°, cent):  45.5
Longitude (°, cent):  7
Surface (km2):  4
Lenght (km):  2.5
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  2300
Max. altitude (m):  3400
Orientation (°)  315
Slope (°)  24

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Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  at this time, the glacier arrives above the glacier of the Sources of the Arc, and a lot of serac falls happens, making a suture between the two glaciers (Sources of the Arc and Mulinet).
Effects:  no damages
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  this glacier is limited on its downstream end by a rock bar. It ends making a vertical front from where many seracs take off. These ice falls can make regenerated glaciers (or neve). The moraine of the glacier of Mulinet usually generates mud-flows (p55 « les risques naturels d’origine glaciaire »)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Mougin, P., 1924 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires. Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale. Paris, p. 161