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GLACIER "CHERILLON"
Risk type: ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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Type: |
Cirque glacier |
Country: |
Italy |
Region: |
Aosta Valley |
Massif/Ice Cap: |
Gruppo Velan Broulè e Cervino |
Municipality: |
Valtournenche |
Municipality code: |
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Location: |
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Latitude (°, cent): |
45,98 N |
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Longitude (°, cent): |
7,6 E |
Surface (km2): |
1,15 |
Lenght (km): |
2,2 |
Width (km): |
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Min. altitude (m): |
2595 |
Max. altitude (m): |
3540 |
Orientation (°) |
180 |
Slope (°) |
19 |
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EVENT: Date
//1931
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
During the summer a huge ice mass fell under the rock-step on which the glacier leans. |
Effects: |
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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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Vanni M., 1932 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1931. Bollettino del Comitato Glaciologico Italiano. Serie I. N.12, p. 280-282 |
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EVENT: Date
3/9/1860
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
An ice fall probably occurred in this glacier during a period with heavy precipitations, as some big ice boulders were found after the flood in Châtillon (near St-Clair), transported by Marmore river. |
Effects: |
Damages related to ice fall are unknown. |
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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Vescoz P. L., 1919 - Phénomènes atmospheriques. Souvenir des principales anomalies du temps, observées en Vallée d'Aoste dans le course su XIX siècle. Bull. Société de la Flore Valdôtaine, n. 13, p. 40. |
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