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GLACIER "NANTS"
Risk type: ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
France |
| Region: |
Savoie |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Vanoise |
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| Location: |
Glacier divided into two parts (superior and inferior), situated under the Dôme glacé of Chasseforêt |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
45.2 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
6.44 E |
| Surface (km2): |
0.4 |
| Lenght (km): |
1.7 |
| Width (km): |
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| Min. altitude (m): |
2100 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3350 |
| Orientation (°) |
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| Slope (°) |
35 |
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EVENT: Date
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- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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| Description |
On several occasions before 1905 : regularly, ice avalanche happens under the dome of the Nants. This phenomenon supplies the two regenerated glaciers of the Nants, especially the glacier inferior. These serac falls still continue in 1999 and regenerates glaciers still existing, although it is in small proportions. The started area is situated between 3400m and 3500m of altitude ; the ice cap of the Dômes stops in this place above a rock face of 700m high, making a vertical front of 50m to 80m high. Serac falls are not the only way of ablation, in spite of the high altitude, the quantity of melting water is not insignificant because for years, we can see a big moulin at the bottom of the snout |
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Effects: |
no damages, apparently |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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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-flow (p55 « les risques naturels d’origine glaciaire »)The quality of the information is of poor, events are just cited, with any dates. |
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DAMAGES |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Mougin, P., 1925 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale. Paris, p. 161. |
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