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Monitoring water accumulation in a glacier using time lapse magnetic resonance surveys

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Since the catastrophic subglacial lake outburst flood in 1892, the risk of a new event in the glacier of Tête Rousse, in the Alps (close to the Mont Blanc) has been thoroughly studied until now (Vincent et al., 2010, 2012). In the last 5 years, the combination of several geophysical technics has provided valuable input for the glaciologists to better understand the structure and the evolution of sub-glacial liquid water (Garambois et al, 2015). Ground penetrating radar which has proven for long to be a very efficient tool in glacial environment has been used here, providing fine imaging of internal structures, bed rock depth estimate, crevasses and the top of the main cavity. In addition, Magnetic resonance has been performed in 2009, confirming the existence of the liquid water volume, and applied in 2010 along a tight array of loops to provide a 3 D image and an estimate of the total water volume. Indeed, this latter parameter is of major importance to evaluate the level of risk.
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hal-01258252 , version 1 (18-01-2016)

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Jean-François Girard, Anatoly Legchenko, Jean-Michel Baltassat, Christian Vincent, Stéphane Garambois. Monitoring water accumulation in a glacier using time lapse magnetic resonance surveys. Flow Trans 2015, International Conference on Flow in Transforming Porous Media, Nov 2015, Strasbourg, France. ⟨hal-01258252⟩
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