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Title: Theoretical Snowpack Behavior Associated With Postcontrol Avalanches
Date: 1982
Authors: Thomas E. Pratt
Description: Postcontrol avalanches are commonly associated with two conditions: (l) inability of explosives to produce slope failure even though unstable conditi...
Object ID: issw-1982-023-024.pdf
Keywords: triggering, slope release, postcontrol, creep rate
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Title: A Plastic Wave in Snow
Date: 1982
Authors: Atsushi Sato
Description: When snow is pushed very fast by a moving body, not only an elastic wave but also a plastic wave is generated at the head of the body. Though an elast...
Object ID: issw-1982-024.pdf
Keywords: plastic wave, elastic wave, denstiy
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Title: Discussion of Deformation Measurements in Relation to Snow Slab Release
Date: 1976
Authors: D.M. McClung
Description: Snow stratigraphy studies at avalanche fracture lines indicate that the situation may be viewed essentially as a thick slab overlying a thin failure p...
Object ID: issw-1976-186-192.pdf
Keywords: snow stratigraphy, slab release, fracture lines
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