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Object · Glaciers and snow

Bolshoy Azau Glacier

A named glacier of the massif. This card has no description of its own yet: below is what is actually known, and a plain statement of what this reference does not have.

In section Ice and water

What is known about this object

Type of object
Glacier
Belongs to
Glaciers and snow · Named glaciers
Names
Bolshoy Azau Glacier
Only the title itself is confirmed. Other spellings and local forms require a source and are not given here.
Coordinates
Not published
A coordinate is bound to a point, to a reference system and to a source. Without them it does not help locate anything; it creates false precision.
Size and change
No figure given
Area, length and change belong to a particular survey date and to a chosen outline. Figures for the massif as a whole are not carried over to a single glacier.

What this reference does not have yet

This card has no description of its own yet. A card of this kind answers four questions, and for none of them does this reference currently hold a source:

  • where the glacier lies, what shape it has and which catchment it drains into;
  • who observed it and when;
  • what mutually comparable measurements show;
  • why this particular glacier came to be closely observed.

Until there is an answer, this reference supplies neither a coordinate nor an area nor a date. An empty row is more honest than a plausible number: a figure without a date, a method and a source can be neither checked nor compared.

How glacier figures are read

This rule concerns the glacier system as a whole, not this particular glacier. Published outlines depend on a date, an image set, the treatment of divides and small ice bodies, and the way seasonal snow is separated from glacier ice.[1] An inventory figure is therefore read together with its source.

When a comparable series of observations for this glacier exists, it will enter this card with its period and method stated, not as a single number. Glaciers of Mount Elbrus explains how the system is built and why inventories disagree.

Notes

  1. The dependence of published outlines on date, image set and the treatment of divides; this concerns the glacier system of the massif. Holobâcă (2016). Back to the text
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Which observation series for individual glaciers of the massif are published?

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