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GLACIER "ARGENTIÈRE"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Valley glacier |
| Country: |
France |
| Region: |
Haute Savoie |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Mont Blanc |
| Municipality: |
Argentière |
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| Location: |
Glacial display well developed, which descend from the « Mont Dolent » towards the village of Argentière. |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.95 |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
7 |
| Surface (km2): |
15 |
| Lenght (km): |
9 |
| Width (km): |
2.4 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
1400 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3800 |
| Orientation (°) |
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| Slope (°) |
14 |
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EVENT: Date
25/7/1996
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
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| 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 |
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Effects: |
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| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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EVENT: Date
4/6/1904
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| 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 |
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Effects: |
2 persons died near the front of the glacier |
| Deaths(#) |
2 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
the global information in relation with this event is reduced ; it concerns only the consequences, not exactly the event |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Commune de Chamonix Mont Blanc, 1996 - Crue de l'Arve Chamonicipal, numéro spécial, 12 pages |
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M.Legland, 1998 - témoignage recueilli en mai 1998 |
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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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Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.349 |
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