Are There Any Active Rock Glaciers in the Tatra Mountains?
Abstract Research on rock glaciers have been conducted in the Tatra Mountains for about 100 years. About 30 years ago, there were papers suggesting that part of the Tatra rock glaciers was formed during the Little Ice Age. About 20 years ago, permafrost was discovered in the mountains. This discover...
| Published in: | Studia Geomorphologica Carpatho-Balcanica |
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sgcb-2015-0001 https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/sgcb.2014.48.issue-1/sgcb-2015-0001/sgcb-2015-0001.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Research on rock glaciers have been conducted in the Tatra Mountains for about 100 years. About 30 years ago, there were papers suggesting that part of the Tatra rock glaciers was formed during the Little Ice Age. About 20 years ago, permafrost was discovered in the mountains. This discovery marked the beginning of research on the activity of rock glaciers. Ten years ago, a study was carried out on the rock glacier near the Velké Hincovo Pleso lake, which excluded any activity of this glacier in the last few hundred years, despite the high probability of the existence of permafrost in it. The following paper presents the results of lichenometric dating conducted for the activity of rock glaciers in the Świstówka Roztocka and the Buczynowa valleys. |
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