Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina
Among glacier instabilities, collapses of large parts of low-angle glaciers are a striking, exceptional phenomenon. So far, merely the 2002 collapse of Kolka Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains and the 2016 twin detachments of the Aru glaciers in western Tibet have been well documented. Here we report...
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ftunivzuerich:oai:www.zora.uzh.ch:178335 2024-10-13T14:11:06+00:00 Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina Falaschi, Daniel Kääb, Andreas Paul, Frank Tadono, Takeo Rivera, Juan Antonio Lenzano, Luis Eduardo 2019-03-26 application/pdf https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/178335/ eng eng Copernicus Publications https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/178335/1/2019_tc-13-997-2019.pdf doi:10.5167/uzh-178335 doi:10.5194/tc-13-997-2019 urn:issn:1994-0416 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Falaschi, Daniel; Kääb, Andreas; Paul, Frank; Tadono, Takeo; Rivera, Juan Antonio; Lenzano, Luis Eduardo (2019). Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina. The Cryosphere, 13(3):997-1004. Institute of Geography 910 Geography & travel Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology Journal Article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 ftunivzuerich https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-17833510.5194/tc-13-997-2019 2024-09-25T00:59:11Z Among glacier instabilities, collapses of large parts of low-angle glaciers are a striking, exceptional phenomenon. So far, merely the 2002 collapse of Kolka Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains and the 2016 twin detachments of the Aru glaciers in western Tibet have been well documented. Here we report on the previously unnoticed collapse of an unnamed cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina in March 2007. Although of much smaller ice volume, this 4.2±0.6×106 m³ collapse in the Andes is similar to the Caucasus and Tibet ones in that the resulting ice avalanche travelled a total distance of ∼2 km over a surprisingly low angle of reach (∼5∘). Article in Journal/Newspaper The Cryosphere University of Zurich (UZH): ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive Argentina |
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Among glacier instabilities, collapses of large parts of low-angle glaciers are a striking, exceptional phenomenon. So far, merely the 2002 collapse of Kolka Glacier in the Caucasus Mountains and the 2016 twin detachments of the Aru glaciers in western Tibet have been well documented. Here we report on the previously unnoticed collapse of an unnamed cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina in March 2007. Although of much smaller ice volume, this 4.2±0.6×106 m³ collapse in the Andes is similar to the Caucasus and Tibet ones in that the resulting ice avalanche travelled a total distance of ∼2 km over a surprisingly low angle of reach (∼5∘). |
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Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina |
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Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina |
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Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina |
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brief communication: collapse of 4 mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the central andes of argentina |
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Falaschi, Daniel; Kääb, Andreas; Paul, Frank; Tadono, Takeo; Rivera, Juan Antonio; Lenzano, Luis Eduardo (2019). Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm³ of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina. The Cryosphere, 13(3):997-1004. |
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