dry avalanche

  • 1avalanche — /av euh lanch , lahnch /, n., v., avalanched, avalanching. n. 1. a large mass of snow, ice, etc., detached from a mountain slope and sliding or falling suddenly downward. 2. anything like an avalanche in suddenness and overwhelming quantity: an… …

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  • 2Galtür Avalanche — On February 23 1999 the worst Alpine avalanche in 40 years. It killed 31 people in the small Alpine village of Galtür, Austria. Three major weather systems originating from the Atlantic accounted for large snow falls totalling around four metres… …

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  • 3debris avalanche — ALASKA VOLCANO OBSERVATORY GLOSSARY Rapidly moving, dry flows of disaggregated rock debris, sand, and silt. Volcanic debris avalanches commonly form by some type of structural collapse of the volcano, usually the steep front of the cooled lava… …

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  • 4debris avalanche —    The mass movement process, associated sediments (debris avalanche deposit), or resultant landform characterized by a very rapid to extremely rapid type of flow dominated by the sudden downslope movement of incoherent, unsorted mixtures of soil …

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  • 5drift avalanche — noun : an avalanche composed of dry powdery snow initially set in motion by wind …

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  • 6wind avalanche — wind avalanche, a mass of fine, dry snow that strong winds sweep down a mountainside …

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