Is that a relict rock glacier?
The distribution of rock glaciers is often used to investigate the occurrence of permafrost in mountain areas and to understand their climate and paleoclimate evolution. This requires the creation of regional and global inventories capable of discriminating active and relict landforms in order to fo...
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ftuninsubriairis:oai:irinsubria.uninsubria.it:11383/2077459 2024-04-14T08:12:54+00:00 Is that a relict rock glacier? Colucci, Renato R. Forte, Emanuele Žebre, Manja Maset, Eleonora Zanettini, Carlotta Guglielmin, Mauro Colucci, Renato R. Forte, Emanuele Žebre, Manja Maset, Eleonora Zanettini, Carlotta Guglielmin, Mauro 2019 http://hdl.handle.net/11383/2077459 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.002 eng eng Elsevier B.V. info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000461407500015 volume:330 firstpage:177 lastpage:189 numberofpages:13 journal:GEOMORPHOLOGY http://hdl.handle.net/11383/2077459 doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.002 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85061264720 www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/store/5/0/3/3/3/4/ Buried ice Electrical resistivity tomography Periglacial environment Permafrost Rock glacier Earth-Surface Processes info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2019 ftuninsubriairis https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.02.002 2024-03-21T19:05:14Z The distribution of rock glaciers is often used to investigate the occurrence of permafrost in mountain areas and to understand their climate and paleoclimate evolution. This requires the creation of regional and global inventories capable of discriminating active and relict landforms in order to forecast the presence or absence of ice in the ground. In this paper, geomorphological, geophysical and microclimatic surveys are performed on a rock glacier of the Carnic Alps (Eastern European Alps). In the classification currently used for implementing regional inventories of permafrost evidence in the Alps, this rock glacier would be defined as relict. However the geophysical, climatological and geomorphological results indicate that internal ice is widespread in large portions of the rock glacier. These are generally interpreted as ice in pore spaces and local ice lenses, probably without layers of massive ice. Moreover the occurrence of ice during the maximum thawing season at depths <15 m, assumed here as the depth of zero annual amplitude, suggests that the ice occurring within the rock glacier is related to current cryotic conditions due to density driven air flow (i.e. the chimney effect). This research demonstrates that the current altitudinal limit of alpine permafrost can be locally several hundreds of meters lower than forecasted by empirical modeling based only on the rock glacier distribution and classification. Therefore, rock glacier classifications based only on remote sensing and geomorphological evidence as the main sources for extracting regional climate and paleoclimate signals should be treated with caution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice permafrost IRInSubria - Institutional Repository Insubria (Università degli Studi dell’Insubria) The Chimney ENVELOPE(-55.748,-55.748,52.617,52.617) Geomorphology 330 177 189 |
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The distribution of rock glaciers is often used to investigate the occurrence of permafrost in mountain areas and to understand their climate and paleoclimate evolution. This requires the creation of regional and global inventories capable of discriminating active and relict landforms in order to forecast the presence or absence of ice in the ground. In this paper, geomorphological, geophysical and microclimatic surveys are performed on a rock glacier of the Carnic Alps (Eastern European Alps). In the classification currently used for implementing regional inventories of permafrost evidence in the Alps, this rock glacier would be defined as relict. However the geophysical, climatological and geomorphological results indicate that internal ice is widespread in large portions of the rock glacier. These are generally interpreted as ice in pore spaces and local ice lenses, probably without layers of massive ice. Moreover the occurrence of ice during the maximum thawing season at depths <15 m, assumed here as the depth of zero annual amplitude, suggests that the ice occurring within the rock glacier is related to current cryotic conditions due to density driven air flow (i.e. the chimney effect). This research demonstrates that the current altitudinal limit of alpine permafrost can be locally several hundreds of meters lower than forecasted by empirical modeling based only on the rock glacier distribution and classification. Therefore, rock glacier classifications based only on remote sensing and geomorphological evidence as the main sources for extracting regional climate and paleoclimate signals should be treated with caution. |
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Colucci, Renato R. Forte, Emanuele Žebre, Manja Maset, Eleonora Zanettini, Carlotta Guglielmin, Mauro |
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Is that a relict rock glacier? |
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