Impacts of the 2003 and 2015 summer heatwaves on permafrost-affected rock-walls in the Mont Blanc massif.

• Published in: Science of The Total Environment
• Main Authors: Ravanel, Ludovic, Magnin, Florence, Deline, Philip
• 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)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2017
• Subjects: geo; envir; Mont Blanc; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.055; https://hal-sde.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01779946

Rockfall is one of the main geomorphological processes that affects the evolution and stability of rock-walls. At high elevations, rockfall is largely climate-driven, very probably because of the warming of rock-wall permafrost. So with the ongoing global warming that drives the degradation of perma...