Mont Blanc glacier flood

The Mont Blanc glacier flood was a damaging flood near Mont Blanc, France, that occurred in 1892. In the disaster, a subterranean glacial lake burst from beneath the Tête Rousse glacier on the mountain and released 200,000 cubic meters of water,[1] flooding the village of Saint-Gervais-Le Fayet[1] and killing 175 people.[2] The lake did not overflow because of too much accumulated water, but because there water-filled crevasse that shrank when the change to a positive mass balance of the entire glacier occurred beginning in 1878.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Vincent, C. (2010). "Origin of the Outburst flood from the Glacier de Tete Rousse in 1892" Check |url= value (help) (PDF). Journal of Glaciology.


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