Cheilon Glacier
| Cheilon Glacier | ||
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 The Mont Blanc de Cheilon with the Cheilon Glacier |
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| location | Canton of Valais , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Valais Alps | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 3.3 km (2011) | |
| surface | 4.07 km² (1995) | |
| Exposure | North | |
| Altitude range | 3830 m above sea level M. - 2620 m above sea level M. (2005) | |
| Ice volume | 0.24 ± 0.06 km³ (1995) | |
| Coordinates | 598.9 thousand / 95383 | |
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| drainage | Lac des Dix , Dixence , Rhone | |
The Cheilon Glacier (French Glacier de Cheilon ) forms the rear end of the valley of the Val des Dix in the Valais Alps , in the south of the canton of Valais , Switzerland . It is 3.3 km long, in 1995 the area was determined to be 4.07 km².
The Cheilon Glacier arises at the northern foot of Mont Blanc de Cheilon from two branches. The western side glacier starts at the firn-covered Col de Cheilon (3243 m), which connects to the Giétrogletscher . The eastern branch has its origin at the Col de la Serpentine (3547 m), where it is connected to the Serpentine Glacier and the Tsijiore-Nouve Glacier . In the valley, the Cheilon Glacier flows with a relatively slight incline to the north, with it being bordered by the Luette (3548 m) in the west and the Pointes de Tsena Réfien (up to 3500 m) in the east. The glacier tongue ends at an altitude of about 2620 m. The meltwater flows to the Lac des Dix reservoir and over the Dixence to the Rhone .
During the high stage of the Little Ice Age around the middle of the 19th century, the Cheilon Glacier was about 1.5 km longer than it is today and ended at the height of today's reservoir. The Cabane des Dix , a hut belonging to the Swiss Alpine Club SAC, stands on a rocky promontory west of the glacier at 2928 m . It serves as an important starting point for mountain climbs and glacier tours in the area of Mont Blanc de Cheilon.
Web links
- Map section at map.geo.admin.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zurich (ed.): Cheilon Glacier. In: Swiss Glacier Measurement Network. ( ethz.ch , also as PDF , accessed on December 20, 2013).
- ↑ a b c Daniel Farinotti, Matthias Huss, Andreas Bauder, Martin Funk: An estimate of the glacier ice volume in the Swiss Alps. In: Global and Planetary Change. 68: 225-231, 2009 ( online ; PDF; 756 kB).
- ↑ a b WGMS: Fluctuations of Glaciers Database. World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich 2013 ( DOI: 10.5904 / wgms-fog-2013-11 ), accessed on December 11, 2013