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GLACIER "GALAMBRA"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Cirque glacier |
| Country: |
Italy |
| Region: |
Piemonte |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Galambra-Sommeiller |
| Municipality: |
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| Municipality code: |
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| Location: |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
5,102 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
6,87567 E |
| Surface (km2): |
0,21 |
| Lenght (km): |
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| Width (km): |
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| Min. altitude (m): |
2830 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3130 |
| Orientation (°) |
45 |
| Slope (°) |
30 |
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EVENT: Date
//1933
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Another partial emptying of the lake occurred in an indefinable period between summer 1933 and summer 1934. |
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Effects: |
Water level decreased, and the lake separated in two smaller parts. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Peretti L., 1935 - Les lacs de barrage glaciaire et le vidage du Lac de Galambra. Revue de Géographie Alpine. XXIII, p. 650. |
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EVENT: Date
//1932
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Slow emptying of 500.000 m3 of water from Galambra Lake (altitude 3004 m), probably during autumn 1932. Nobody realized that the lake emptyed until summer 1933, because it discharged with a low rate, some cubic meters per second. The lake was dammed by glacier snout and moraine. In 1929 the lake had a surface of 0.064 km2, and was 450 m long (E-W) and 230 m large (N-S). After the outburst, water level decreased of 14 m; water overflew slowly through crevasses in the ice, or through the bedrock. In summer 1933, its dimensions was only 62 x 28 m. After the huge retreat, in 1947 there were only three small lakes, far from the glacier. |
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Effects: |
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| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
| Note |
The lake formed in 1830's. In 1886 its surface was about 35.000 m2 (0.035 km2); it had a maximum lenght of 390 m, maximum width of 140 m, and its altitude was 3026 m. |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Peretti L., 1929 - I ghiacciai italiani sul gruppo Cenisio-Ambin. Boll. CGI, serie I, 9, p. 40-44 |
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Peretti L., 1934 - Relazione della campagna glaciologica - anno 1933. Boll. CGI, serie I, 14, p. 205-206. |
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Peretti L., 1935 - Les lacs de barrage glaciaire et la vidange du Lac de Galambra. Rev. Géogr. Alpine. N23, p.635-654. |
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Vanni M., 1950 - Relazione della campagna glaciologica - anno 1947. Boll. CGI, serie II, 1, p. 118-119. |
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