Evolution des glaciers et du pergélisol depuis le dernier maximum glaciaire dans la région du mont Gelé-Mont Fort (Alpes Valaisannes, Suisse) : chronologie, modalités de la dernière déglaciation et datations des âges d’exposition à l’aide du marteau de Schmidt

• Published in: Quaternaire
• Main Author: Scapozza, Cristian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Association française pour l’étude du quaternaire 2017
• Subjects: deglaciation; Late Pleistocene; Lateglacial; Holocene; Schmidt hammer; rock glacier; talus slope; palaeoclimate; Swiss Alps; Pléistocène tardif; Tardiglaciaire; marteau de Schmidt; glacier rocheux; éboulis; paléoclimat; Alpes suisses; geo; hist; Schmidt Glacier; permafrost; pergélisol
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/7250

Knowledge about the morphoclimatic evolution of the Alps during the Lateglacial and the Holocene considerably evolved during the last century in particular in the eastern part of the Alps, even if little interest was accorded to the periglacial zone. This latter being located above the upper limit o...