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Macizos / L) Balaitous Massif

91) Sureste Balaitous

91) Sureste Balaitous

In the Circo de la Esclusera, separated from the Brecha Latour Glacier by the Brulle Buttress, the Southeast Balaitous Glacier developed during the Little Ice Age, wedged between the buttress and the Bondidier Ridge. Despite its unfavourable south-easterly orientation, it reached an area of 2.7 ha and a length of 210 m, making it the smallest of all the glaciers in the Balaitus Massif
In observations made in 1983, it was classified as a helero. During the 1990s, it degraded very rapidly, becoming extinct in 2006.

Este aparato glaciar pertenece al siguiente macizo:

Balaitous

L) Balaitous Massif

Aragón
6 glaciers

Galería de imágenes

On the left, the Southeast Glacier of Balaitous in 1950. On the right, the Brecha Latour Glacier. (L. Gómez Laguna. V.V.A.A. Aragón, vol I. Zaragoza: Banco de Aragón, 1960 – Detail of photograph).

On the left, covered by light snowfall, the deteriorated Southeast Helero of Balaitous in 2003. (Fernando Biarge – Detail of photograph).

The former location of the extinct Sureste Balaitous glacier and its frontal moraine in autumn 2017, one of the years in which a snowfield closed the annual cycle. (Jordi Camins).

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