 INTRODUCTION
TYPES
OF AVALANCHE
THE
MECHANISM OF AVALANCHE RELEASE
FORECASTING
SNOW AVALANCHES
AVALANCHE
CONTROL TECHNIQUES
AVALANCHE
HAZARD RATINGS
AVALANCHE
TRAINING FOR DOGS
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INTRODUCTION...
Snow avalanches are are a source of natural
disasters, and are active geological agents of erosion as long as man
has dwelled in the mountains. It is a common feature
of mountainous terrain throughout the temperate and arctic regions of
the Earth, and may fall wherever snow is deposited on
slopes steeper than about 30 degrees. Small avalanches, also called sluffs,
run in uncounted numbers each winter, while the larger
avalanches, which fall infrequently, but inflict most of the destruction,
as it may encompass slopes a mile or more wide and
millions of tons of snow This hazard arises whenever man and
his works are exposed to sliding snow. Although it is a more recent development
in other parts of the world, such hazard has been familiar to inhabitants
of the Alps and Scandinavia for many centuries.
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Picture Gallery
In this section, you will
get to see pictures of avalanches happening worldwide...dated from the
1900s...
Maps of avalanche-affected
areas
Click on the globe to see
frequently hit places...
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