Guslarferner

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Guslarferner
Guslarferner from the east in September 2005

Guslarferner from the east in September 2005

location Tyrol , Austria
Mountains Ötztal Alps
Type Mountain glacier
length 2.1 km (2010)
surface 1.4 km² (2006)
Exposure Nutrient area: east; Consumption area: Southeast
Altitude range 3480  m above sea level A.  -  2720  m above sea level A. (1975)
Ice thickness ⌀ 28 m (1987)
Coordinates 46 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 46 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 10 ° 48 ′ 0 ″  E
Guslarferner (Tyrol)
Guslarferner
drainage Guslarbach, Vernagtbach , Rofenache , Venter Ache , Ötztaler Ache , Inn
From the east: Guslarferner with glacier tongue, behind the Fluchtkogel massif, as of July 2011

From the east: Guslarferner with glacier tongue, behind the Fluchtkogel massif, as of July 2011

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The Guslarferner is a glacier in the Ötztal Alps in Tyrol . It is located on the south side of the Weißkamm on the east side of Fluchtkogel ( 3497  m above sea level ) and Kesselwandspitze ( 3414  m above sea level ). In 1969 it split into two independent parts: a larger northern part below the Fluchtkogel, which is also known as the large Guslarferner , and a smaller, southern part below the southeast ridge of the Kesselwandspitze, also known as the smaller Guslarferner . The ridge of the Hintergraslspitzen separates the Guslarferner from the Vernagtferner to the northeast . On the map that Sebastian Finsterwalder made of Vernagt- und Guslarferner in 1889, the tongues of both glaciers meet below today's Vernagthütte and are only separated by a central moraine .

For the glacier area of ​​the large Guslarferner 1.4 km² were determined in 2006, the area of ​​the small Guslarferner in 2010 was only 5.56 hectares . It is believed that the latter will have disappeared except for smaller areas of dead ice by 2020 . The length of the great Guslarferner was determined in 1975 to be 2.5 kilometers. Since then, the end of the tongue has withdrawn about 400 meters.

In terms of alpinism , the Guslarferner is mostly entered at the transition from the Vernagthütte to the Brandenburger Haus . Coming from the Vernagthütte, you first climb over the northern edge of the moraine of the Guslarfernes. You enter the glacier at an altitude of just under 3000 meters and usually climb to the Untere Guslarjoch ( 3311  m above sea level ), the deepest notch in the northwest ridge of the Kesselwandspitze. The Obere Guslarjoch ( 3361  m above sea level , also called "Winterjöchl") in the south ridge of the Fluchtkogel is used less often. The upper area of ​​the Guslarferner often has crevasses that are difficult to assess . The further way to the Brandenburger Haus leads over the Kesselwandferner , which reaches from the Guslarjöchern to the Guslarferner.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c WGMS: Fluctuations of Glaciers Database. World Glacier Monitoring Service, Zurich 2012 ( DOI: 10.5904 / wgms-fog-2012-11 ), accessed on February 7, 2013
  2. ^ A b World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2005–2010 (Vol. X). Zurich 2012 ( online ( memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF file; 4, 81 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo.uzh.ch
  3. ↑ a b J. Abermann et al .: Quantifying changes and trends in glacier area and volume in the Austrian Ötztal Alps (1969-1997-2006). In: The Cryosphere . Volume 3, 2009, pp. 205–215 ( online )
  4. ^ University of Vienna, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics: Seismic ice thickness measurements of Austrian glaciers. In: Archive for deposit research of the Federal Geological Institute. Vienna 1987, Volume 8, p. 27f ( online ; PDF file; 320 kB)
  5. ↑ a b Achim Heilig, Christoph Mayer, Wilfried Hagg: Project “Dwindling Ice Reserves in Climate Change - Differences in the Glacier Reaction between Central Alpine Dry Areas and the High Precipitation Areas in the Bavarian Alps”. Commission for Glaciology, Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 2011
  6. ↑ Sebastian Finsterwalder: The Vernagtferner in 1889 (PDF file; 1.53 MB)
  7. ^ Walter Klier: Alpine Club Guide Ötztal Alps. Bergverlag Rudolf Rother, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-7633-1123-8 , margin number 495