Glaciology Section at General Assembly of International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (14th)

• Main Author: Dyunin,A. K.
• Other Authors: COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LAB HANOVER N H
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1971
• Subjects: Snow; Ice and Permafrost; (*AVALANCHES; PROTECTION); (*GLACIERS; *SYMPOSIA); SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH; MOUNTAINS; ROADS; INDUSTRIES; SWITZERLAND; USSR; ALPS MOUNTAINS; TRANSLATIONS; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0720072; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=AD0720072

The article recounts the work of the glaciology section of the 14th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics held in Switzerland in the autumn of 1967. The author, an Assembly participant, sets forth the basic content of papers on avalanches, describes his impressions of a four-day expedition in the Swiss Alps for familiarizing himself and others in the field with methods of avalanche protection. (Author) Trans. of Institut Inzhenerov Zheleznodorozhnogo Transporta, Novosibirsk. Trudy (USSR) n89 p73-91 1969.