Ice thawing, mountains falling—are alpine rock slope failures increasing?
Many high‐mountain environments of the world have seen dramatic changes in the past years and decades. Glaciers are retreating and downwasting, often at a dramatically fast pace, leaving large amounts of potentially unstable debris, moraines and rock slopes behind. Although in the main invisible to...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1365-2451.2012.00836.x 2024-09-15T18:11:32+00:00 Ice thawing, mountains falling—are alpine rock slope failures increasing? Huggel, C. Allen, S. Deline, P. Fischer, L. Noetzli, J. Ravanel, L. 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2012.00836.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-2451.2012.00836.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2012.00836.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Geology Today volume 28, issue 3, page 98-104 ISSN 0266-6979 1365-2451 journal-article 2012 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2451.2012.00836.x 2024-09-03T04:22:42Z Many high‐mountain environments of the world have seen dramatic changes in the past years and decades. Glaciers are retreating and downwasting, often at a dramatically fast pace, leaving large amounts of potentially unstable debris, moraines and rock slopes behind. Although in the main invisible to the eye of an observer, permafrost, i.e. rock and debris with permanent zero or subzero temperatures, is thawing. Several slopes have become unstable and landslides potentially related to permafrost degradation have received wide‐ranging attention from both scientists and the media. A number of those landslides can be related to the effects of recent changes in the cryosphere, which are ultimately driven by changes in climatic parameters, in particular temperature and precipitation. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost Wiley Online Library Geology Today 28 3 98 104 |
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Many high‐mountain environments of the world have seen dramatic changes in the past years and decades. Glaciers are retreating and downwasting, often at a dramatically fast pace, leaving large amounts of potentially unstable debris, moraines and rock slopes behind. Although in the main invisible to the eye of an observer, permafrost, i.e. rock and debris with permanent zero or subzero temperatures, is thawing. Several slopes have become unstable and landslides potentially related to permafrost degradation have received wide‐ranging attention from both scientists and the media. A number of those landslides can be related to the effects of recent changes in the cryosphere, which are ultimately driven by changes in climatic parameters, in particular temperature and precipitation. |
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