L’évolution morphologique récente du réseau hydrographique sur les marges des glaciers Lovén, presqu’île de Brøgger (Spitsberg, 79° N)

• Published in: Norois
• Main Author: Roussel, Erwan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2005
• Subjects: contexte paraglaciaire; réseau hydrographique; hydrographic Network; paraglacial context; geo; envir; Kongsfjord; Ryder; Kongsfjord*; Spitsberg; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/norois.659; http://journals.openedition.org/norois/659

In polar areas the post Little Ice Age warming generates paraglacial processes (Church and Ryder, 1972) marked by the prevalence of run-off over the zonal (glacial and periglacial) processes. In Spitsbergen, the retreat of the Brøgger peninsula’s glaciers induces the release of large amounts of prog...