Northern Torstein Glacier
| Northern Torstein Glacier | ||
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 Aerial view of the Dachsteinstock from the west with the northern Torstein glacier to the right of the center in 1933 ( ETH Library ) |
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| location | Upper Austria | |
| Mountains | Dachstein Mountains | |
| Type | Kar glacier Karst glacier | |
| length | 0.45 km | |
| surface | 0.4 (?) (DORIS 2019) | |
| Exposure | northwest | |
| Altitude range | 2610 m above sea level A. - 2490 m above sea level A. | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 28 '34 " N , 13 ° 34' 57" E | |
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| particularities | Shadows and snow supply from avalanches | |
The northern Torstein glacier is one of the western small glaciers in the Dachstein massif .
Location and description
The Northern Torstein Glacier comes from a high cirque open to the west at the foot of the Torstein, in whose shadowy corner a large part of the nutrient area lies. In addition to a more or less large firn and ice surface, depending on the season, part of the glacier lies under a cover of debris from the walls of the Torstein, as early as 1997 Roman Moser observed that half of the ice field was already formed as a rock glacier .
High level of 1850 and phases of retreat
At the time when the glacier rose in 1850, the Northern Torstein Glacier was connected to the Kleiner Gosau Glacier and, at least in the nutrient area, also to the Southern Torstein Glacier . The common glacier tongue stretched from Friedrich Simony to the Eiskarlspitze.
The rapid retreat of the glaciers after 1850 caused the separation from the Kleiner Gosaugletscher at the end of the 1880s; the ice field in the western Windlegerkar was also recognized as an independent ice field and was soon referred to as the southern Torstein glacier.
For 1915 an area of 8.2 ha is given for the northern Torstein glacier, in the fifties it was still 7.3 ha, in 1991 it was only 5 to 6 ha. The indication of a current value is problematic due to the debris cover, but should are only around 4 to 5 ha.
literature
- Erik Arnberger , Erwin Wilthum: The glaciers of the Dachsteinstock in the past and present II. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 98, Linz 1953, pp. 187-217, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- Rainer Hochhold: The glaciers of the Dachstein group . Geographic Institute of the Univ. Innsbruck. 1978; Digitized: The glaciers of the Dachstein group
- Roman Moser: The glaciation in the Dachstein and its traces in advance. Dissertation at the Geographical Institute of the University of Innsbruck, 1954.
- Roman Moser: Dachstein Glacier and its traces in advance. Musealverein Hallstatt (Ed.), Hallstatt 1997, 143 pages.
- Friedrich Simony: About the fluctuations in the spatial extent of the glaciers of the Dachstein Mountains during the period 1840–1884 . Mitt. D. Geogr. Ges. Wien Vol. 28: 1885; Pp. 113-135
- Friedrich Simony: The Dachstein area. A geographical character image from the Austrian Northern Alps. E. Hölzl, Vienna 1895, 152 pages.