ON THE INCONSISTENCY AND GROUNDLESSNESS GLACIOLOGICAL IDEAS ABOUT THE CATASTROPHIC SURGE OF KOLKA GLACIER, ITS CAUSES AND ANALOGUES

Abstract

Based on the materials of consideration of generalizing glaciological publications of recent years, the inconsistency and groundlessness of glaciological ideas about the catastrophic pulsation of the Kolka glacier in 2002, the traces left by it, its causes, mechanisms of flow and analogues are shown. Glaciologists in recent works formally accepted not glaciological, not exogenous but the endogenous solution of Kolka (Karmadon, Genaldon) problems,and actually remained on the same incorrect long disproved glaciological positions in its understanding.At the same time, the pulsation of the Dagestan valley glacier Murkar in August 1960, the features of the flow, causes and geodynamic type (rapid movement, collapse, failure, release) of which are not reliably established and unknown, is taken as an analog and standard for comparison.The questions about the role of water in the Kolka catastrophe, the giant cavity (funnel) left by the catastrophe, the expansion of the debris of the products of the Kolka glacier destruction are touched upon.