{"id":15922,"date":"2015-08-29T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2015-08-28T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T16:46:13","slug":"tour-ronde-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2015\/08\/29\/tour-ronde-1\/","title":{"rendered":"A large rockfall on the Tour Ronde, Mont Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Tour Ronde, Mont Blanc<\/h5>\n<p>The Tour Ronde is a massif the Mont Blanc region of the Alps, on the border between France and Italy.\u00a0 On Thursday the southeast face of this mountain suffered a significant landslide.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmountain.com\/english\/News\/shownews1.lasso?l=2&amp;keyid=43000#\">Planet Mountain<\/a> has a nice piece providing an account of the landslide:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gianluca Marra, a Mountain Guide from Courmayeur &#8230; told planetmountain.com that \u201ca first rockfall took place at around 8:30, a second one just over an hour later\u201d adding that \u201cthe rockfall occurred on a section of the SE Face, on the spur a bit to the right of the Normal Route up Tour Ronde.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Luckily, no-one was killed or injured in the Tour Ronde rockfall, but it was captured on video by Gianluca Marra, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CYUWZoRk3bk\">and it is now on Youtube<\/a>.\u00a0 Two rockfalls occurred, about an hour apart.\u00a0 This is the second event:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYUWZoRk3bk?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>The capture of both the rockfall component of this landslide (including the detachment of a series of large boulders) and the runout component (and in particular the slow bulldozing effect at the end of the movement phase, as was also observed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2013\/02\/12\/the-full-video-of-the-mount-dixon-rock-avalanche-from-aoraki-mount-cook-national-park-in-new-zealand\/\">Mount Dixon landslide in New Zealand<\/a>) is particularly helpful.\u00a0 Once again the way in which the rockfall component resembles a fluid flow is notable.\u00a0 This is particularly evident in this remarkable photograph of the first collapse, also from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmountain.com\/english\/News\/shownews1.lasso?l=2&amp;keyid=43000#\">Planet Mountain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15923\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Tour-Ronde-1-e1440779582793.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15923\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15923\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Tour-Ronde-1-e1440779582793.jpg\" alt=\"Tour Ronde\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gianluca Marra via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmountain.com\/english\/News\/shownews1.lasso?l=2&amp;keyid=43000#\">Planet Mountain<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmountain.com\/english\/News\/shownews1.lasso?l=2&amp;keyid=43000#\">Planet Mountain<\/a> also has a high resolution photograph of the aftermath of the Tour Ronde rockfalls after the second collapse, also taken by Gianluca Marra:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15927\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Tour-Ronde-2-e1440779987195.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15927\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15927\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2015\/08\/15_08-Tour-Ronde-2-e1440779987195.jpg\" alt=\"Tour Ronde\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gianluca Marra via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetmountain.com\/english\/News\/shownews1.lasso?l=2&amp;keyid=43000#\">Planet Mountain<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday a significant rockfall occurred on the Tour Ronde in the Mont Blanc region.  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