Perito Moreno Glacier repeatedly dams the Brazo Rico and Brazo Sur branches of Lago Argentino. The rupture of the ice dam applies an intense hydrological load signal which results in an elastic response of the solid earth. We present a modelling procedure to predict loading effects in response ...
The enormous pressure produced by the height of the dammed water finally breaks the ice barrier holding it back, in a spectacular rupture event. This dam/rupture cycle is not regular and it recurs naturally at any frequency between once a year to less than once a decade. The glacier first ...
Every couple of years there is a huge rupture of the glacier which causes flood in nearby locations. However, depending on weather conditions you can observe this living ice daily. From time to time, the pieces of the glacier fall into the water. Most of them are “small”, but sometimes...
The fame of this glacier is due precisely to the particular behavior of moving forward and back, sometimes completely it closed the passage of water in the canal of the floes, forming a natural dam of ice, then water pressure undermines the glacier to fractured and monumental cause rupture an...
Documentary and tree-ring evidence for a long-term interval without ice impoundments from Glaciar Perito Moreno, Patagonia, ArgentinaGuerridoC.M.VillalbaR.RojasF.HOLOCENE -SEVENOAKS-
An overview of the hydrological data from Patagonia's Perito Moreno Glacier–Lake Argentino- and Santa Cruz River system reinforces our previous assertion that the El Nio Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) are teleconnected with the rupture sequence when the glacier's ...
El Nio events, for example, appear to have fostered the advancement of the glacier's snout and influenced the recorded damming–rupture sequence.doi:10.1016/S0921-8181(00)00049-7P.J DepetrisA.I PasquiniElsevier B.V.Global & Planetary Change...