Like a house of cards, buried weak snow layers buckle under pressure and unleash slab avalanches - Peer2Peer

Like a house of cards, buried weak snow layers buckle under pressure and unleash slab avalanches

Apr 15, 2026

Although the fundamental constitutive laws for steel and concrete were established more than a century ago, weak layers in snow remain a mystery. There are currently two theories about how they fail. A study published in Geophysical Research Letters has now identified a clear favorite.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-house-cards-weak-layers-buckle.html

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