Mont Miné glacier
| Mont Miné glacier | ||
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 Glacier tongue at Ferpècle |
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| location | Canton of Valais , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Valais Alps | |
| Type | Valley glacier | |
| length | 7.7 km (2011) | |
| surface | 11.28 km² (1995) | |
| Exposure | Nutrient area northwest, consumption area north | |
| Altitude range | 3720 m above sea level M. - 1963 m above sea level M. (1983) | |
| Tilt | ⌀ 16.9 ° (30%) | |
| Ice volume | 0.89 ± 0.22 km³ (1995) | |
| Coordinates | 608 621 / 98415 | |
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| drainage | Borgne de Ferpècle , Borgne , Rhone | |
The Mont Miné Glacier ( Glacier du Mont Miné in French ) is a valley glacier in the southern end of the Val d'Hérens , south-southeast of Evolène in the Valais Alps . It has a length of 7.7 km and in 1995 covered an area of 11.28 km². The exposure of the nutrient area is northwest, that of the consumption area is north.
location
The Mont Miné glacier has its origin on the firn-covered Col des Bouquetins pass ( 3357 m above sea level ), over which the border between Italy and Switzerland runs, between the rocky ridge of the Bouquetins ( 3838 m above sea level ) in the west and the Tête Blanche ( 3710 m above sea level ) in the east. A glaciated ridge north of the Tête Blanche connects the Mont Miné Glacier with the Ferpècle Glacier, which runs parallel to the east . The Mont Miné glacier flows north, in the west from the Aiguille de la Tsa ( 3668 m above sea level ) and the Dent de Perroc ( 3676 m above sea level ), in the east from Mont Miné ( 3029 m above sea level). M. ) flanked. The end of the glacier tongue was in 1983 at an altitude of 1963 m . The glacier feeds the Borgne de Ferpècle , which unites in Les Haudères with the Borgne d'Arolla to the Borgne , which flows from the Val d'Hérens to the Rhone .
history
Before 1956, the Mont Miné glacier was not only related to the Ferpècle glacier in the nutrient zone, but also united with it in the tongue area. In this connection area, a marginal lake built up temporarily, which erupted in the summer of 1952 and caused a flood of damage in the Val d'Hérens.
As early as 1949, when the 3rd Patrouille des Glaciers was carried out, the participating Maurice Crettez , Robert Droz and Louis Thétaz had an accident in a crevasse and could only be recovered after eight days. This incident was the reason for a long-term ban on holding the event.
Web links
- Mont Miné Glacier on the ETHorama platform
- 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.): Mont-Miné-Glacier. In: Swiss Glacier Measurement Network. ( ethz.ch , also as PDF , accessed on January 31, 2014).
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Andreas Linsbauer, Frank Paul, Wilfried Haeberli: Modeling glacier thickness distribution and bed topography over entire mountain ranges with GlabTop: Application of a fast and robust approach. In: Journal of Geophysical Research. , Volume 117, F03007, 2012, doi : 10.1029 / 2011JF002313 ( online )
- ^ Editing of the Swiss Lexicon, Glacier Commission of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences (ed.): Glaciers, snow and ice. P. 56. Verlag Schweizer Lexikon Mengis + Ziehr, Lucerne 1993, ISBN 3-9520144-2-7 .
- ^ Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Hydrology and Glaciology (VAW) of the ETH Zurich : Glacier de Ferpècle, Glacier de Mont Miné. In: Glacier Natural Hazards. ( ethz.ch ( page no longer available ), also as a PDF ( page no longer available )).
- ↑ he.admin.ch: Patrouille des Glaciers, Geschichte ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
