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Show Erratic, but Spectacular . Avalanches are erratic, but speatac-ular speatac-ular phenomena that puzzle scientists. There Is every graduation from the loosening and falling of a small piece of rock from a cliff to a huge landslide land-slide involving hundreds of cubic yards of rock and earth. Glaclologlsts state that an avalanche displacing 1,000,000 cubic yards of rocks and debris Is in the giant class. The Monte Arbino avalanche Is understood to have displaced dis-placed 30,000,000 cubic yards of loose earth. This occurred last year, but it was predicted many years before and that is probably the reason why no lives were lost. |