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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-997-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-997-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Brief communication
 | 
26 Mar 2019
Brief communication |  | 26 Mar 2019

Brief communication: Collapse of 4 Mm3 of ice from a cirque glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina

Daniel Falaschi, Andreas Kääb, Frank Paul, Takeo Tadono, Juan Antonio Rivera, and Luis Eduardo Lenzano

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In March 2007, the Leñas Glacier in the Central Andes of Argentina collapsed and released an ice avalanche that travelled a distance of 2 km. We analysed aerial photos, satellite images and field evidence to investigate the evolution of the glacier from the 1950s through the present day. A clear potential trigger of the collapse could not be identified from available meteorological and seismic data, nor could a significant change in glacier geometry leading to glacier instability be detected.
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