
Interrogating a Catastrophic Mass Flow
in December 2017 a catastrophic mass flow occurred in Chilean Patagonia compounding a rock face failure onto a glacial lake moraine cascading down a saturated forested catchment accumulating over 6 million cubic metres of material reacing speeds of 70km/h and wiping out half a town killing dozens. Here Prof Andy Russell explores the event track to identify key sections to survey.
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- Cryospheric Sciences (720)
- Field (2877)
- Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Volcanology (986)
- Geomorphology (1399)
- Hydrological Sciences (682)
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- Natural Hazards (526)
- Nonlinear Processes in Geosciences (35)
- Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (525)
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- South America (332)
- Chile (81)
- Exact location (-72.3881 W, -43.3769 S)
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Samsung SM-G930F
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Taken on 17
January
2019
Submitted on 31 March 2025
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Credit
Alejandro Dussaillant (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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