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Understanding Deadly Ice Avalanches

An ice skating phenomenon might explain the snowball effect behind icy avalanches

December 28, 2011 RSS Feed Print

Nonetheless, Schneider believes that these most recent results represent an important step toward understanding avalanches: "All in all, it's a great basis for future work."

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