Some Theoretical Problems in the Formation and Movement of Snow Avalanches

In the present paper an attempt is made to resolve certain questions of the statics and dynamics of snow avalanches on the basis of the data of the existing literature in the field and the analysis of the material accumulated by the author during high altitude expeditions of the Institue of Geophysi...

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Main Author: Gondadze,D. N.
Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1971
Subjects:
Snow
Ice and Permafrost
(*AVALANCHES
DYNAMICS)
TERRAIN
STABILITY
COSTS
DRYING
VELOCITY
DENSITY
USSR
*SNOW COVER
TRANSLATIONS
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0720068
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Summary:In the present paper an attempt is made to resolve certain questions of the statics and dynamics of snow avalanches on the basis of the data of the existing literature in the field and the analysis of the material accumulated by the author during high altitude expeditions of the Institue of Geophysics of the Academy of Sciences Georgian SSR during the 1948-54 period. (Author) Trans. of Akademiya Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR, Tiflis. Institut Geofiziki. Trudy, v13 p161-174 1954.

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