2022
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5830
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Abstract: <p>Snow slab avalanches release due to crack propagation within a weak snow layer buried below a cohesive snow slab. In 1979, McClung [1] described this process assuming an interfacial and quasi-brittle shear failure for the weak layer. This model fails to explain observations of propagation on low angle terrain and remote avalanche triggering. To address this shortcoming, Heierli et al. [2] adapted in 2008 the anticrack concept developed for porous rocks to weak snow layers. In 2018, Gaume et al… Show more

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