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Another wrinkle in the physics of avalanches

Brief by Allen Best

Avalanches – September 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine

It’s the sort of stuff that only a snow nerd could care about, but mountain towns are full of snow nerds.

The issue is how slab avalanches are precipitated. The conventional thinking has been that gravity mattered a great deal. In other words, the angle of the slope was all-important.