Influences of rock avalanches on glacier behaviour and moraine formation in the Western European Alps

• Main Author: Deline, Philip
• Other Authors: Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de Montagne (EDYTEM), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: Mont Blanc; Ela; Drus; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/halsde-00879484

Rock avalanching is a very hazardous process in mountain areas, that generates a high risk in inhabited valleys. Present glacier shrinkage and permafrost degradation in steep rockwalls could increase the frequency and magnitude of rock avalanching in the context of the current climate change. In hig...