Repeated Holocene rock avalanches onto the Brenva Glacier, Mont Blanc massif, Italy: A chronology

• Main Authors: Deline, Philip, Akçar, Naki, Ivy-Ochs, Susan, Kubik, Peter W.
• Other Authors: Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Geological Sciences Bern, University of Bern, Institute of Particle Physics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Rock avalanche; Glacier; Moraine; Permafrost; Radiocarbon dating; Surface exposure dating; 10Be; Historical sources; Holocene; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography; Avalanche Glacier; Mont Blanc; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01349722

International audience Infrequent rock avalanches (volume ≥1 Mm3) are long-runout processes, especially when travelling onto a glacier, that may threaten populated mountain valleys. Rock avalanches also have strong implications are for relief generation and destruction though time. Both consequences...