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

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Type:  Valley glacier
Country:  France
Region:  Haute Savoie
Massif/Ice Cap:  Mont Blanc
Municipality:  Argentière
Municipality code:  
Location:  Glacial display well developed, which descend from the « Mont Dolent » towards the village of Argentière.
 
Latitude (°, cent):  45.95
Longitude (°, cent):  7
Surface (km2):  15
Lenght (km):  9
Width (km):  2.4
Min. altitude (m):  1400
Max. altitude (m):  3800
Orientation (°)  
Slope (°)  14

EVENT:  Date  25/7/1996 -  Date quality:   

Type:  
Description  The glacier was suspected of water pocket outburst on July 25th, 1996, but this hypothesis was discarded because of abundant precipitations occurred between July, 24th and 26th, 1996. It seems most probably the increase of water pressure in intra-glacial channels of flow had led to many small breaking up, wrong assigned of water pocket outburst
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  4/6/1904 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  a sudden rush of water has been released from the glacier. The hypothesis retained was that the water pocket localised in the glacier outburst, because there had been no precipitations during the last days
Effects:  2 persons died near the front of the glacier
Deaths(#)  2
Injuried (#)  0
Note  the global information in relation with this event is reduced ; it concerns only the consequences, not exactly the event

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Commune de Chamonix Mont Blanc, 1996 - Crue de l'Arve Chamonicipal, numéro spécial, 12 pages
M.Legland, 1998 - témoignage recueilli en mai 1998
Mougin, M.P, 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, p.169
Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.349