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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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:halsde-00873318v1 2023-05-15T16:37:17+02:00 Ice thawing, mountains falling - are alpine rock slope failures increasing? Huggel, Christian Allen, Steven Deline, Philip Fischer, L. Noetzli, Jeannette Ravanel, Ludovic Glaciology, Geomorphodynamics and Geochronology, Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) Climate and Environmental Physics Bern (CEP) Physikalisches Institut Bern Universität Bern Bern -Universität Bern Bern 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) Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Group Department of geography Glaciology, Geomorphodynamics and Geochronology Department of Geography Zürich Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH)-Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) 2013 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00873318 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley halsde-00873318 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00873318 ISSN: 0266-6979 EISSN: 1365-2451 Geology Today https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00873318 Geology Today, Wiley, 2013, 28 (3), pp. 98-104 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2013 ftccsdartic 2021-11-07T04:33:57Z 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 Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) |
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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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Glaciology, Geomorphodynamics and Geochronology, Physical Geography Division, Department of Geography Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) Climate and Environmental Physics Bern (CEP) Physikalisches Institut Bern Universität Bern Bern -Universität Bern Bern 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) Glaciology and Geomorphodynamics Group Department of geography Glaciology, Geomorphodynamics and Geochronology Department of Geography Zürich Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH)-Universität Zürich Zürich (UZH) |
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Huggel, Christian Allen, Steven Deline, Philip Fischer, L. Noetzli, Jeannette Ravanel, Ludovic Ice thawing, mountains falling - are alpine rock slope failures increasing? |
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Ice thawing, mountains falling - are alpine rock slope failures increasing? |
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Ice thawing, mountains falling - are alpine rock slope failures increasing? |
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Ice thawing, mountains falling - are alpine rock slope failures increasing? |
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ISSN: 0266-6979 EISSN: 1365-2451 Geology Today https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00873318 Geology Today, Wiley, 2013, 28 (3), pp. 98-104 |
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