Le Cervin, sommet mythique et géomorphosite emblématique des Alpes suisses

• Published in: Physio-Géo
• Main Author: Huguet, Francis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Claude Martin 2020
• Subjects: alpinisme; géomorphologie; géomorphosite; Cervin; Suisse; Végétation; Déforestation; Savanisation; Hydrologie; Pertes de rivière; Hydrologie karstique; Précipitations; Inondations; Limnologie; Milieux lotiques; Milieux lentiques; Expérimentation forestière; Reboisement; Relief littoral; Art pictural; Sédiments éoliens; Holocène; Transport éolien; Matterhorn; mountaineering; Switzerland; geomorphology; Hydrology; River losses; Karstic hydrology; Rainfall; Floods; Limnology; Lotic environments; Lentic environments; Reforestation; Forest experimentation; Painting; Coastal landform; Aeolian deposits; Wind transport; geo; art; La Pyramide; permafrost; pergélisol
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/physio-geo.10612; http://journals.openedition.org/physio-geo/10612

Matterhorn, with its pyramidal shape, nearly obsessing in Switzerland, is since its conquest in 1865 an emblematic mountain in the history of mountaineering. But it is also the object of important geological and geomorphologic researches: place in the structure of Alpine range, carving by intersecti...