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GLACIER "NANTILLONS"
Risk type: glacier flood and ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
France |
| Region: |
Haute Savoie |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Mont Blanc |
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| Location: |
Glacier situated under the Aiguilles of the Grépon and of the Grands Charmoz. It looks directly on Chamonix |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.54 |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
6.54 |
| Surface (km2): |
0.5 |
| Lenght (km): |
1.5 |
| Width (km): |
0.4 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2300 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3300 |
| Orientation (°) |
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| Slope (°) |
34 |
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EVENT: Date
2/9/1944
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
a water pocket would has emptied in the proglacial lake of the Nantillons. The sudden coming of a big quantity of water in the lake has provoked the failure of the morainic dam, and the emptying of the lake |
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Effects: |
downstream, as in 1934, the cellars of Chamonix have been flooded, and the railway of the Montenvers has been covered by blocks and mud over 150 m |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
the global quality of this information is poor, we only know the consequences for the area situated downstream, but we don’t know anything concerning the description of the phenomenon |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Mougin, M.P., 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimierie nationale, Paris, p.162,163 |
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R.T.M. d'Annecy, 0 - Archives du service R.T.M. d'Annecy |
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EVENT: Date
23/8/1934
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
water pocket outburst |
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Effects: |
flood of the cellars of Chamonix, and cut of the railway Chamonix-Vallorcine on 50 m |
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0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
the global quality of this information is poor, we only know the consequences for the area situated downstream, but we don’t know anything concerning the description of the phenomenon |
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EVENT: Date
7/6/1905
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
at 2 pm, many serac took of from the glacier, at 3.200 m of altitude, and have followed the corridor of the Grepon until 1.100 m of altitude. It has formed a cone of 52.000 m3 |
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Effects: |
no listed damages |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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EVENT: Date
4/3/1889
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
an important serac fall started at 11:00 pm, from the bottom of the Aiguille of Charmoz |
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Effects: |
a house of the village of La Frasse, at only 80 m from the major party of village, has been destructed, and one person is dead. A such phenomenon didn’t happen since 1849 |
| Deaths(#) |
1 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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