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96-419: Agarn is first mentioned in 1252 as Aert . In 1267 it was mentioned as Ayert and in the 16th century it was known as Agaren . Agarn was twice nearly totally burned down, in 1799 and 1899. Agarn has an area, as of 2009, of 7.7 square kilometers (3.0 sq mi). Of this area, 1.3 km (0.50 sq mi) or 17.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.55 km (0.98 sq mi) or 33.3%

192-647: A Fachhochschule ). Of the 38 who completed tertiary schooling, 78.9% were Swiss men, 13.2% were Swiss women. During the 2010–2011 school year there were a total of 54 students in the Agarn school system. The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten . During that school year, there was one kindergarten class (KG1 or KG2) and 9 kindergarten students. The canton's school system requires students to attend six years of primary school . In Agarn there were

288-656: A capitalist class-based society to a socialist commune sparked violent dispute within the party. In 1921, the party decided not to join the Communist International . The left-wing of the party then split from the SP and founded the Communist Party of Switzerland . In 1926, the SP joined the Labour and Socialist International and continued to be a member of until 1940. With increasing power in parliament,

384-511: A child or children. There was 1 household that was made up of unrelated people and 5 households that were made up of some sort of institution or another collective housing. In 2000 there were 118 single family homes (or 62.8% of the total) out of a total of 188 inhabited buildings. There were 45 multi-family buildings (23.9%), along with 7 multi-purpose buildings that were mostly used for housing (3.7%) and 18 other use buildings (commercial or industrial) that also had some housing (9.6%). In 2000,

480-575: A confined channel and is free to spread out and infiltrate the surface. This reduces the carrying capacity of the flow and results in deposition of sediments. The flow can take the form of infrequent debris flows or one or more ephemeral or perennial streams. Alluvial fans are common in the geologic record , such as in the Triassic basins of eastern North America and the New Red Sandstone of south Devon . Such fan deposits likely contain

576-558: A debris flow can come to a halt while still on moderately tilted ground. The flow then becomes consolidated under its own weight. Debris flow fans occur in all climates but are more common where the source rock is mudstone or matrix-rich saprolite rather than coarser, more permeable regolith . The abundance of fine-grained sediments encourages the initial hillslope failure and subsequent cohesive flow of debris. Saturation of clay-rich colluvium by locally intense thunderstorms initiates slope failure. The resulting debris flow travels down

672-514: A decline in electoral success. After serious losses in the 1987 Swiss federal election , the SP was only the third-largest party in the National Council. This resulted in the foundation of a breakaway Democratic-Social Party , which was not a success. The sixth party platform was promulgated in 1982. This presented the party as a modern people's party that supported democratic socialism and had social justice as its highest goal. In 1983,

768-525: A further demand dating back to the time of the Landesstreik was achieved. After the failure of an SP referendum on economic reforms in 1953, the SP member of the Federal Council, Max Weber , and the general-secretary, David Farbstein , resigned. The SP remained in opposition until the introduction of the " magic formula " in 1959, which gave it two seats on the Federal Council. Since that time

864-514: A hiatus of 70,000 to 80,000 years between the old and new fans, with evidence of tectonic tilting at 45,000 years ago and an end to fan deposition 20,000 years ago. Both the hiatus and the more recent end to fan deposition are thought to be connected to periods of enhanced southwest monsoon precipitation. Climate has also influenced fan formation in Death Valley , California , US, where dating of beds suggests that peaks of fan deposition during

960-664: A lag of gravel deposits that have the appearance of a network of braided streams. Where the flow is more continuous, as with spring snow melt, incised-channel flow in channels 1–4 meters (3–10 ft) high takes place in a network of braided streams. Such alluvial fans tend to have a shallower slope but can become enormous. The Kosi and other fans along the Himalaya mountain front in the Indo-Gangetic plain are examples of gigantic stream-flow-dominated alluvial fans, sometimes described as megafans . Here, continued movement on

1056-443: A million people were rendered homeless, about a thousand lost their lives and thousands of hectares of crops were destroyed. Buried alluvial fans are sometimes found at the margins of petroleum basins. Debris flow fans make poor petroleum reservoirs, but fluvial fans are potentially significant reservoirs. Though fluvial fans are typically of poorer quality than reservoirs closer to the basin center, due to their complex structure,

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1152-502: A minimum, major structural flood control measures are required to mitigate risk, and in some cases, the only alternative is to restrict development on the fan surface. Such measures can be politically controversial, particularly since the hazard is not obvious to property owners. In the United States, areas at risk of alluvial fan flooding are marked as Zone AO on flood insurance rate maps . Alluvial fan flooding commonly takes

1248-409: A part of the fan with a steeper gradient, where deposition resumes. As a result, normally only part of the fan is active at any particular time, and the bypassed areas may undergo soil formation or erosion. Alluvial fans can be dominated by debris flows ( debris flow fans ) or stream flow ( fluvial fans ). Which kind of fan is formed is controlled by climate, tectonics , and the type of bedrock in

1344-514: A private car. From the 2000 census, 679 or 89.6% were Roman Catholic , while 7 or 0.9% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church . Of the rest of the population, there were 3 members of an Orthodox church (or about 0.40% of the population), and there were 8 individuals (or about 1.06% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church. There were 41 (or about 5.41% of the population) who were Islamic . 5 (or about 0.66% of

1440-567: A reasonable drug policy" which envisioned the legalisation of cannabis . The SP supported the 1994 national initiative "for the protection of the Alps" which sought a substantial shift of transport of goods through the Alps from road to rail. After Otto Stich's resignation from the Federal Council in 1995, the Federal Councillor Moritz Leuenberger was elected as his successor. In the 1995 Swiss federal election ,

1536-473: A streamflow-dominated alluvial fan shows nearly the same depositional facies as ordinary fluvial environments, so that identification of ancient alluvial fans must be based on radial paleomorphology in a piedmont setting. Alluvial fans are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates , but are also found in more humid environments subject to intense rainfall and in areas of modern glaciation. They have also been found on other bodies of

1632-408: A total of 268 apartments (90.5% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 22 apartments (7.4%) were seasonally occupied and 6 apartments (2.0%) were empty. As of 2009, the construction rate of new housing units was 3.9 new units per 1000 residents. The vacancy rate for the municipality, in 2010, was 1.57%. The historical population is given in the following chart: In the 2007 federal election

1728-463: A total of 5 classes and 54 students in the primary school. The secondary school program consists of three lower, obligatory years of schooling (orientation classes), followed by three to five years of optional, advanced schools. All the lower and upper secondary students from Agarn attend their school in a neighboring municipality. As of 2000, there was one student in Agarn who came from another municipality, while 58 residents attended schools outside

1824-419: A water content between 40 and 80 weight percent. Floods may transition to hyperconcentrated flows as they entrain sediments, while debris flows may become hyperconcentrated flows if they are diluted by water. Because flooding on alluvial fans carries large quantities of sediment, channels can rapidly become blocked, creating great uncertainty about flow paths that magnifies the dangers. Alluvial fan flooding in

1920-457: Is against the construction of new roads where possible and instead proposes to shift the transportation of goods from the roads to the railways and the introduction of a cap and trade and traffic management system when it comes to transportation across the Swiss Alps . Furthermore, the SP stands for an expansion of the public transportation system network and opposes nuclear power . In 2003,

2016-525: Is an accumulation of sediments that fans out from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment . This accumulation is shaped like a section of a shallow cone , with its apex at the source of sediments. Alluvial fans vary greatly in size, from only a few meters across at the base to as much as 150 kilometers across, with a slope of 1.5 to 25 degrees. Some giant alluvial fans have areas of almost 20,000 square kilometres (7,700 sq mi). The slope measured from

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2112-438: Is approximately in equilibrium with erosion, so the river annually carries some 100 million cubic meters (3.5 × 10 ^  cu ft) of sediment as it exits the mountains. Deposition of this magnitude over millions of years is more than sufficient to account for the megafan. In North America , streams flowing into California's Central Valley have deposited smaller but still extensive alluvial fans, such as that of

2208-432: Is described as fanglomerate . Stream flow deposits tend to be sheetlike, better sorted than debris flow deposits, and sometimes show well-developed sedimentary structures such as cross-bedding. These are more prevalent in the medial and distal fan. In the distal fan, where channels are very shallow and braided, stream flow deposits consist of sandy interbeds with planar and trough slanted stratification. The medial fan of

2304-406: Is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.34 km (0.13 sq mi) or 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.06 km (15 acres) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and 3.4 km (1.3 sq mi) or 44.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.7%. Out of the forested land, 30.9% of the total land area

2400-400: Is heavily forested and 1.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 4.8% is used for growing crops and 7.3% is pastures, while 2.1% is used for orchards or vine crops and 2.7% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is in lakes. Of the unproductive areas, 9.3% is unproductive vegetation, 33.3% is too rocky for vegetation and 1.8% of

2496-568: Is located adjacent to low-relief terrain. In Nepal , the Koshi River has built a megafan covering some 15,000 km (5,800 sq mi) below its exit from Himalayan foothills onto the nearly level plains where the river traverses into India before joining the Ganges . Along the upper Koshi tributaries, tectonic forces elevate the Himalayas several millimeters annually. Uplift

2592-438: Is most likely composed of round grains of water ice or solid organic compounds about two centimeters in diameter. Alluvial fans are the most important groundwater reservoirs in many regions. Many urban, industrial, and agricultural areas are located on alluvial fans, including the conurbations of Los Angeles, California ; Salt Lake City, Utah ; and Denver, Colorado , in the western United States, and in many other parts of

2688-534: Is the only left-leaning party with representatives on the Federal Council, positioning itself at the centre-left to left . Currently, Élisabeth Baume-Schneider and Beat Jans represent the party. As of January 2024, the SP is the second-largest political party in the Federal Assembly . Amongst all pro-European parties in Switzerland the SP is the largest and unlike most other Swiss parties,

2784-625: The Apennine Mountains of Italy have resulted in repeated loss of life. A flood on 1 October 1581 at Piedimonte Matese resulted in the loss of 400 lives. Loss of life from alluvial fan floods continued into the 19th century, and the hazard of alluvial fan flooding remains a concern in Italy. On January 1, 1934, record rainfall in a recently burned area of the San Gabriel Mountains , California , caused severe flooding of

2880-462: The European Union , while recently supported EU bilateral accords The SP also stands for a less strict neutrality of Switzerland, and supports increased international efforts on the part of Switzerland in the areas of peace and human rights. However, the SP supports keeping the military neutrality and opposes entry into NATO . Its pacifist stance is also reflected in its military policy as

2976-697: The Grütli Union , the Swiss Trade Union Federation and several local social democratic parties. Most of these labour parties only lasted a short time, until the foundation of the Social Democratic Party on 21 October 1888 (the Swiss Labour Day ). Albert Steck of Bern composed the party's platform which emphasised democracy , rejected revolutionary aspirations, and mandated a democratic solution to

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3072-737: The Kings River flowing out of the Sierra Nevada . Like the Himalayan megafans, these are streamflow-dominated fans. Alluvial fans are also found on Mars . Unlike alluvial fans on Earth, those on Mars are rarely associated with tectonic processes, but are much more common on crater rims. The crater rim alluvial fans appear to have been deposited by sheetflow rather than debris flows. Three alluvial fans have been found in Saheki Crater . These fans confirmed past fluvial flow on

3168-518: The Main Boundary Thrust over the last ten million years has focused the drainage of 750 kilometres (470 miles) of mountain frontage into just three enormous fans. Alluvial fans are common in the geologic record, but may have been particularly important before the evolution of land plants in the mid-Paleozoic. They are characteristic of fault-bounded basins and can be 5,000 meters (16,000 ft) or thicker due to tectonic subsidence of

3264-482: The National Council in the 1918 Swiss referendums which passed on 13 October 1918. In the 1919 Swiss federal election , the SP doubled its mandate from 20 to 41 members. With the third party platform, adopted in 1920, disagreement within the party grew ever greater. In particular the fact that the platform called for the foundation of a dictatorship of the proletariat during the transitional phase from

3360-678: The Solar System . Alluvial fans are built in response to erosion induced by tectonic uplift . The upwards coarsening of the beds making up the fan reflects cycles of erosion in the highlands that feed sediments to the fan. However, climate and changes in base level may be as important as tectonic uplift. For example, alluvial fans in the Himalayas show older fans entrenched and overlain by younger fans. The younger fans, in turn, are cut by deep incised valleys showing two terrace levels. Dating via optically stimulated luminescence suggests

3456-654: The Swiss Socialist Party ( French : Parti socialiste suisse ; Italian : Partito Socialista Svizzero , PS ), is a political party in Switzerland . The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second-highest number of votes in the 2023 Swiss federal election . The SP was founded on 21 October 1888 and is currently the second-largest of the four leading coalition political parties in Switzerland. It

3552-698: The Valles Marineris canyon system. These provide evidence of the existence and nature of faulting in this region of Mars. Alluvial fans have been observed by the Cassini-Huygens mission on Titan using the Cassini orbiter's synthetic aperture radar instrument. These fans are more common in the drier mid-latitudes at the end of methane/ethane rivers where it is thought that frequent wetting and drying occur due to precipitation, much like arid fans on Earth. Radar imaging suggests that fan material

3648-458: The secondary sector and there were 15 businesses in this sector. 93 people were employed in the tertiary sector , with 26 businesses in this sector. There were 349 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 36.4% of the workforce. In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 182. The number of jobs in the primary sector was 12, all of which were in agriculture. The number of jobs in

3744-621: The 1992 party conference in Genf, the SP decided to support accession to the European Economic Area as a first step towards membership of the European Economic Community and endorsed a drug policy involving the decriminalisation of drug consumption, controlled sale of drugs for medicinal purposes, and eventual legalisation of drugs. The following year, the SP supported the national people's initiative "for

3840-623: The 26 cantonal sections ( Valais is divided into two sections, namely Oberwallis and Valais Romand ) elect delegates for national party conferences. The number of delegates for each canton is equivalent to the number of seats that the canton has in the National Assembly . The SP has a youth party called the Young Socialists Switzerland (JUSO/JS). The JS are independent of the SP in political terms but are supported by it financially and institutionally. Within

3936-710: The Federal Council. On that occasion too, the United Federal Assembly did not choose the official candidate of the SP ( Christiane Brunner ), but the unofficial candidate Dreifuss (the Brunner-Effekt  [ de ] ). In 1990, the SP party conference accepted Switzerland's accession to the International Monetary Fund with clear conditions and elected the Valais canton councillor, Peter Bodenmann , as party president. At

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4032-462: The SP has been a member of the grand coalition which governs Switzerland. In 1959, the fifth party platform was also agreed in which the party committed itself to reformist socialism on "democratic foundations". In the 1970s and 1980s, the SP gained new followers from the new social movements that arose from the protests of 1968 , but lost part of their traditional voter base in the working class. This change led to fierce internal disputes and led to

4128-492: The SP made a substantial recovery and was once again the largest party in the Federal Council. In June 1997, the party conference chose Zurich city councillor, Ursula Koch as party president (the first woman to hold the role), rather than the favourite Andrea Hämmerle  [ de ] . In the 1999 Swiss federal election , Koch was also elected to the Federal Council. She resigned as party president and Federal councillor in 2000, due to internal party pressure. Her successor

4224-476: The SP nominated Lilian Uchtenhagen as their candidate for the Federal Council, the first time that a woman had been a candidate. The parliamentary majority elected Otto Stich instead. Part of the party demanded that the SP withdraw from the governing coalition as a result of this, but this was rejected by a party conference. Ten years later in March 1993, Ruth Dreifuss was elected as the first SD woman to serve in

4320-884: The SP opposes the notion of lowering taxes for high-income citizens. By campaigning for the harmonisation of all tax rates in Switzerland, the SP seeks more redistribution . The SP is skeptical toward the privatization of state enterprises . Nonetheless, the SP also promotes more competition in the areas of agriculture and parallel imports . In social policy, the SP is committed to social equity and an open society . The SP aims at making working conditions for women in families easier by promoting more external childcare centers and more opportunities for part-time jobs . It also aims at reinforcing sexual equality in terms of eliminating wage differences based on gender, supports civil union for Same-sex couples and takes an easier stance toward abortions. The SP also rejects strengthening restrictions on asylum seekers and immigrants. The party supports

4416-428: The SP rejects policies of economic liberalisation such as deregulation , lowering taxes for high-income citizens, and decreases in government spending on social insurance . The SP also opposes raising the retirement age. In addition, the SP is a proponent of increasing welfare spending in some areas such as for a publicly financed maternity leave , universal health care and a flexible retirement age. In tax policy,

4512-528: The SP supports Swiss membership in the European Union . Additionally, it supports labour rights and tax incentives for companies that offer shares to employees. The party is a member of the Progressive Alliance and an associate member of the Party of European Socialists . Before the establishment of the national SP, there were various 19th-century labour movements in Switzerland such as

4608-566: The SP supports reducing the number of Swiss militia while making the military apparatus more professional and scrapping conscription . Another demand of the SP is to end the tradition of gun ownership , using severe and recent examples of abuse in terms of murder as proof. The SP has common environmentalist policies with the Green Party of Switzerland which are reflected in the expansion of ecotax reforms and increased state support for energy saving measures and renewable energies . The SP

4704-448: The SP who organised the 1918 Swiss general strike . The goal of the strike was a fundamental reorganisation of society. The Federal Council issued an ultimatum to the strikers and allowed the military occupation of central points. In this way the strike was ended after four days. Political action was quickly taken to conciliate the strikers with the introduction of a 48-hour working week and a popular initiative on proportional elections to

4800-512: The SP, the JS are seen as equivalent to a cantonal section and so they are entitled to send some delegates to party conferences. As of 2022, the president of the JS is Nicola Siegrist. There is also a separate, smaller SP youth party called Junge SP in the Olten region. The SP supports classical social democratic policies, as well as some democratic socialist ones, and has been described as one of

4896-604: The alluvial fan on which the towns of Montrose and Glendale were built. The floods caused significant loss of life and property. The Koshi River in India has built up a megafan where it exits the Himalayas onto the Ganges plain . The river has a history of frequently and capriciously changing its course, so that it has been called the Sorrow of Bihar for contributing disproportionately to India's death tolls in flooding. These exceed those of all countries except Bangladesh . Over

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4992-409: The apex is generally concave, with the steepest slope near the apex (the proximal fan or fanhead ) and becoming less steep further out (the medial fan or midfan ) and shallowing at the edges of the fan (the distal fan or outer fan ). Sieve deposits , which are lobes of coarse gravel, may be present on the proximal fan. The sediments in an alluvial fan are usually coarse and poorly sorted, with

5088-431: The area feeding the flow onto the fan. Debris flow fans receive most of their sediments in the form of debris flows. Debris flows are slurry-like mixtures of water and particles of all sizes, from clay to boulders, that resemble wet concrete . They are characterized by having a yield strength, meaning that they are highly viscous at low flow velocities but become less viscous as the flow velocity increases. This means that

5184-768: The basin and uplift of the mountain front. Most are red from hematite produced by diagenetic alteration of iron-rich minerals in a shallow, oxidizing environment. Examples of paleofans include the Triassic basins of eastern North America and the New Red Sandstone of south Devon, the Devonian Hornelen Basin of Norway, and the Devonian- Carboniferous in the Gaspé Peninsula of Canada. Such fan deposit likely contain

5280-554: The borders of the electorates initially prevented the party from achieving serious political power on the national level, despite growing numbers of supporters. Two popular initiatives for the introduction of a proportional voting system were rejected. The party's historical archives are hosted today by the Swiss Social Archives , which was founded in 1906 by Paul Pflüger. At a 1912 party conference in Neuchâtel ,

5376-478: The bottom. Multiple braided streams are usually present and active during water flows. Phreatophytes (plants with long tap roots capable of reaching a deep water table ) are sometimes found in sinuous lines radiating from arid climate fan toes. These fan-toe phreatophyte strips trace buried channels of coarse sediments from the fan that have interfingered with impermeable playa sediments. Alluvial fans also develop in wetter climates when high-relief terrain

5472-423: The coarsest sediments found on the proximal fan. When there is enough space in the alluvial plain for all of the sediment deposits to fan out without contacting other valley walls or rivers, an unconfined alluvial fan develops. Unconfined alluvial fans allow sediments to naturally fan out, and the shape of the fan is not influenced by other topological features. When the alluvial plain is more restricted, so that

5568-619: The episodic flooding channels of the fans are potentially lucrative targets for petroleum exploration. Alluvial fans that experience toe-trimming (lateral erosion) by an axial river (a river running the length of an escarpment-bounded basin) may have increased potential as reservoirs. The river deposits relatively porous, permeable axial river sediments that alternate with fan sediment beds. Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland ( German : Sozialdemokratische Partei der Schweiz , SP ; Romansh : Partida Socialdemocrata da la Svizra ), also called

5664-420: The fan comes into contact with topographic barriers, a confined fan is formed. Wave or channel erosion of the edge of the fan ( lateral erosion ) sometimes produces a "toe-trimmed" fan, in which the edge of the fan is marked by a small escarpment. Toe-trimmed fans may record climate changes or tectonic processes, and the process of lateral erosion may enhance the aquifer or petroleum reservoir potential of

5760-400: The fan. Toe-trimmed fans on the planet Mars provide evidence of past river systems. When numerous rivers and streams exit a mountain front onto a plain, the fans can combine to form a continuous apron. This is referred to as a bajada or piedmont alluvial plain . Alluvial fans usually form where a confined feeder channel exits a mountain front or a glacier margin. As the flow exits

5856-745: The fan: Finer sediments are deposited at the edge of the fan, but as the fan continues to grow, increasingly coarse sediments are deposited on top of the earlier, less coarse sediments. However, a few fans show normal grading indicating inactivity or even fan retreat, so that increasingly fine sediments are deposited on earlier coarser sediments. Normal or reverse grading sequences can be hundreds to thousands of meters in thickness. Depositional facies that have been reported for alluvial fans include debris flows, sheet floods and upper regime stream floods, sieve deposits, and braided stream flows, each leaving their own characteristic sediment deposits that can be identified by geologists. Debris flow deposits are common in

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5952-516: The feeder channel and onto the surface of the fan. Debris flow fans have a network of mostly inactive distributary channels in the upper fan that gives way to mid- to lower-level lobes. The channels tend to be filled by subsequent cohesive debris flows. Usually only one lobe is active at a time, and inactive lobes may develop desert varnish or develop a soil profile from eolian dust deposition, on time scales of 1,000 to 10,000 years. Because of their high viscosity, debris flows tend to be confined to

6048-554: The feeder channel onto the fan surface, it is able to spread out into wide, shallow channels or to infiltrate the surface. This reduces the carrying power of the flow and results in deposition of sediments. Flow in the proximal fan, where the slope is steepest, is usually confined to a single channel (a fanhead trench ), which may be up to 30 meters (100 ft) deep. This channel is subject to blockage by accumulated sediments or debris flows , which causes flow to periodically break out of its old channel ( nodal avulsion ) and shift to

6144-400: The feeder channel. This results in sheetfloods on the alluvial fan, where sediment-laden water leaves its channel confines and spreads across the fan surface. These may include hyperconcentrated flows containing 20% to 45% sediments, which are intermediate between sheetfloods having 20% or less of sediments and debris flows with more than 45% sediments. As the flood recedes, it often leaves

6240-530: The form of short (several hours) but energetic flash floods that occur with little or no warning. They typically result from heavy and prolonged rainfall, and are characterized by high velocities and capacity for sediment transport. Flows cover the range from floods through hyperconcentrated flows to debris flows, depending on the volume of sediments in the flow. Debris flows resemble freshly poured concrete, consisting mostly of coarse debris. Hyperconcentrated flows are intermediate between floods and debris flows, with

6336-402: The form of stream flow rather than debris flows. They are less sharply distinguished from ordinary fluvial deposits than are debris flow fans. Fluvial fans occur where there is perennial, seasonal, or ephemeral stream flow that feeds a system of distributary channels on the fan. In arid or semiarid climates, deposition is dominated by infrequent but intense rainfall that produces flash floods in

6432-535: The gender distribution of the population was 51.1% male and 48.9% female. The population was made up of 362 Swiss men (47.0% of the population) and 32 (4.2%) non-Swiss men. There were 343 Swiss women (44.5%) and 34 (4.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 420 or about 55.4% were born in Agarn and lived there in 2000. There were 210 or 27.7% who were born in the same canton, while 46 or 6.1% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 68 or 9.0% were born outside of Switzerland. The age distribution of

6528-425: The insurance or financial industry, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 5 or 6.3% were in education. In 2000, there were 81 workers who commuted into the municipality and 260 workers who commuted away. The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 3.2 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering. Of the working population, 20.3% used public transportation to get to work, and 60.2% used

6624-493: The integration of immigrants by which the immigrants are assigned to immigration procedures immediately after entering the country. The SP has a liberal stance toward drugs and is in favor of publicly regulated heroin consumption and the legalization of cannabis . Nevertheless, the SP supports the smoking ban in restaurants and bars. In foreign policy, the SP promotes further participation by Switzerland in international organizations. It supports immediate entry of Switzerland into

6720-539: The land is covered by glaciers. The municipality is located in the Leuk district, on an alluvial fan on the southern slope of the Rhone valley. It consists of the former linear village of Agarn. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Vert, a Pile embowed Argent, in dexter chief a cross couped, in sinister base a dove volant of the same. Agarn has a population (as of December 2020) of 705. As of 2008, 8.3% of

6816-617: The largest accumulations of gravel in the geologic record. Alluvial fans have also been found on Mars and Titan , showing that fluvial processes have occurred on other worlds. Some of the largest alluvial fans are found along the Himalaya mountain front on the Indo-Gangetic plain . A shift of the feeder channel (a nodal avulsion ) can lead to catastrophic flooding, as occurred on the Kosi River fan in 2008. An alluvial fan

6912-450: The largest accumulations of gravel in the geologic record. Several kinds of sediment deposits ( facies ) are found in alluvial fans. Alluvial fans are characterized by coarse sedimentation, though the sediments making up the fan become less coarse further from the apex. Gravels show well-developed imbrication with the pebbles dipping towards the apex. Fan deposits typically show well-developed reverse grading caused by outbuilding of

7008-411: The last 25,000 years occurred during times of rapid climate change, both from wet to dry and from dry to wet. Alluvial fans are often found in desert areas, which are subjected to periodic flash floods from nearby thunderstorms in local hills. The typical watercourse in an arid climate has a large, funnel-shaped basin at the top, leading to a narrow defile , which opens out into an alluvial fan at

7104-471: The last few hundred years, the river had generally shifted westward across its fan, and by 2008, the main river channel was located on the extreme western part of the megafan. In August 2008 , high monsoon flows breached the embankment of the Koshi River . This diverted most of the river into an unprotected ancient channel and flooded the central part of the megafan. This was an area with a high population density that had been stable for over 200 years. Over

7200-424: The likely flood path, the likelihood of abrupt deposition and erosion of sediments carried by the flood from upstream sources, and a combination of the availability of sediments and of the slope and topography of the fan that creates extraordinary hazards. These hazards cannot reliably be mitigated by elevation on fill (raising existing buildings up to a meter (three feet) and building new foundations beneath them ). At

7296-521: The more left-leaning social democratic parties in Europe. To that rule, the SP stands for a government offering strong public services . The SP is against far-reaching economic liberalism and has anti-capitalist tendencies, and is in favor of social progressivism , environmental policy with climate change mitigation , for an open foreign policy and a national security policy based on pacifism . In economic, financial, and social welfare policy,

7392-565: The most popular party was the CVP which received 64.49% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (23.06%), the SVP (10.62%) and the Green Party (0.79%). In the federal election, a total of 462 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 81.3%. In the 2009 Conseil d'État/Staatsrat election a total of 448 votes were cast, of which 24 or about 5.4% were invalid. The voter participation

7488-478: The municipality, and an average of 2.6 persons per household. There were 73 households that consist of only one person and 30 households with five or more people. Out of a total of 289 households that answered this question, 25.3% were households made up of just one person and there were 6 adults who lived with their parents. Of the rest of the households, there are 76 married couples without children, 116 married couples with children There were 12 single parents with

7584-592: The municipality. Alluvial fan An alluvial fan is an accumulation of sediments that fans outwards from a concentrated source of sediments, such as a narrow canyon emerging from an escarpment . They are characteristic of mountainous terrain in arid to semiarid climates , but are also found in more humid environments subject to intense rainfall and in areas of modern glaciation . They range in area from less than 1 square kilometer (0.4 sq mi) to almost 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 sq mi). Alluvial fans typically form where flow emerges from

7680-570: The party held 52 mandates out of 200 in the National Council (lower chamber of the Swiss parliament); nine out of 46 in the Council of States (upper chamber) and two out of seven mandates in the Federal Council (executive body). By 2005, it held 23.8% of the seats in the Cantonal governments and 23.2% in the Cantonal parliaments (index BADAC, weighted with the population and number of seats). At

7776-408: The party now also demanded membership of the government, but their candidate in 1929 was not elected to the Federal Council. On the other hand, the party managed to enter the executive at a cantonal level in 1933. Geneva was the first canton to have a socialist government, with Léon Nicole as president. In the fourth party platform, promulgated in 1935, the SP rejected the idea of the dictatorship of

7872-722: The planet and further supported the theory that liquid water was once present in some form on the Martian surface. In addition, observations of fans in Gale crater made by satellites from orbit have now been confirmed by the discovery of fluvial sediments by the Curiosity rover . Alluvial fans in Holden crater have toe-trimmed profiles attributed to fluvial erosion. The few alluvial fans associated with tectonic processes include those at Coprates Chasma and Juventae Chasma, which are part of

7968-433: The population (as of 2000) is children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 27.6% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 60.9% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 11.5%. As of 2000, there were 309 people who were single and never married in the municipality. There were 383 married individuals, 45 widows or widowers and 21 individuals who are divorced. As of 2000, there were 284 private households in

8064-470: The population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of -0.9%. It has changed at a rate of -1.7% due to migration and at a rate of 1.9% due to births and deaths. Most of the population (as of 2000) speaks German (684 or 90.2%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (35 or 4.6%) and Italian is the third (12 or 1.6%). There are 10 people who speak French . As of 2008,

8160-419: The population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist , and 19 individuals (or about 2.51% of the population) did not answer the question. The church of Agarn is a Marian church. The pastor is H.H. Anderas Werlen. In Agarn about 262 or (34.6%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary education , and 38 or (5.0%) have completed additional higher education (either university or

8256-494: The proletariat, but supporting the creation of a socialist society on "free and consensual foundations" remained the party's goal. In the 1943 Swiss federal election , the SP achieved the greatest electoral success in its history and became the largest parliamentary group . Ernst Nobs was the first member of SP to be elected to the Federal Council. With introduction of the Old-age and survivors' insurance  [ de ] ,

8352-465: The proximal and medial fan even in a debris-flow-dominated alluvial fan, and streamfloods dominate the distal fan. However, some debris-flow-dominated fans in arid climates consist almost entirely of debris flows and lag gravels from eolian winnowing of debris flows, with no evidence of sheetflood or sieve deposits. Debris-flow-dominated fans tend to be steep and poorly vegetated. Fluvial fans (streamflow-dominated fans) receive most of their sediments in

8448-473: The proximal and medial fan. These deposits lack sedimentary structure, other than occasional reverse-graded bedding towards the base, and they are poorly sorted. The proximal fan may also include gravel lobes that have been interpreted as sieve deposits, where runoff rapidly infiltrates and leaves behind only the coarse material. However, the gravel lobes have also been interpreted as debris flow deposits. Conglomerate originating as debris flows on alluvial fans

8544-472: The question of women's suffrage was debated for the first time. The SP accepted a proposal that committed the party to take any opportunity to "agitate for the introduction of women's suffrage." Although Switzerland remained neutral in the First World War , it did not avoid the spiralling economic crisis that accompanied it. The resulting social tension was unleashed in 1918 by the labour unions and

8640-401: The secondary sector was 90 of which 43 or (47.8%) were in manufacturing and 48 (53.3%) were in construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 80. In the tertiary sector; 35 or 43.8% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 2 or 2.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 13 or 16.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 1 was

8736-472: The social question. The first party president was Alexander Reichel of Bern. Two years after the party's foundation, Jakob Vogelsanger was the first Social Democrat to be elected to the National Council . In 1904, the moderate party platform was replaced at a party conference in Aarau with a Marxist program written by Otto Lang. The first-past-the-post voting system for elections to the National Council and

8832-409: The vote. The SP is composed of around 900 sections across Switzerland, which exist at cantonal and municipal levels. Each of the 32,000 party members are registered in a local section and thus are members of both the cantonal and national parties. Local sections elect delegates to attend the regular party members' conferences; these delegates are entitled to vote in cantonal party conferences. Each of

8928-574: The world. However, flooding on alluvial fans poses unique problems for disaster prevention and preparation. The beds of coarse sediments associated with alluvial fans form aquifers that are the most important groundwater reservoirs in many regions. These include both arid regions, such as Egypt or Iraq, and humid regions, such as central Europe or Taiwan. Alluvial fans are subject to infrequent but often very damaging flooding, whose unusual characteristics distinguish alluvial fan floods from ordinary riverbank flooding. These include great uncertainty in

9024-491: Was 79.2%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 54.67%. In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 455 votes were cast, of which 20 or about 4.4% were invalid. The voter participation was 80.3%, which is much more than the cantonal average of 59.88%. As of  2010, Agarn had an unemployment rate of 1.6%. As of 2008, there were 27 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 96 people were employed in

9120-399: Was Christiane Brunner, who led the party until 2004. In the 2007 Swiss federal election , the SP suffered massive losses, falling to 19.5% of the vote, with only 43 seats in the National Council. In the following federal elections ( 2011 and 2015 ), their electoral support remained at the same level. In the Council of States , where the SP traditionally have had only a few seats, the party

9216-490: Was able to increase its representation over the 2000s and now hold 12 out of 46 seats. In 2017, the party withdrew from the Socialist International and joined the Progressive Alliance . After losing a large vote share in the 2019 elections to the green party the SP regained some of its 2019 losses in the most recent 2023 elections and currently holds 41 seats on the National Council obtaining 18.27% of

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