The Langmoche Flashflood, Khumbu Himal, Nepal
The Langmoche Flashflood, Khumbu Himal, Nepal
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DOI:
10.2307/3673345
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发表时间:
1986-02
影响因子:
1.6
通讯作者:
D. Vuichard;Markus N. Zimmermann
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作者:
D. Vuichard;Markus N. Zimmermann
On 4 August 1985 an outburst of a glacial lake occurred in the Khumbu area of eastern Nepal above Namche Bazar. Such flash-floods must be anticipated in heavily glacierized mountain regions. They are of several kinds: (1) the catastrophic outbreak of lakes dammed by a glacier, or the outbreak of ponded melt-water from beneath or within a glacier system; (2) the overspill of lakes frontal to a glacier that have been dammed by old end moraines; and (3) the sudden drainage of ephemeral lakes dammed by landslides, rockfalls, or by snow or ice avalanches, that have blocked the main channel of a river. The results of