Increasing risks related to landslides from degrading permafrost into new lakes in de-glaciating mountain ranges
While glacier volumes inmost coldmountain ranges rapidly decrease due to continued global warming, degradation of permafrost at altitudes above and below glaciers is much slower. As a consequence,many still existing glacier and permafrost landscapes probably transformwithin decades into new landscap...
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Elsevier
2017
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Online Access: | https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127449/ https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127449/1/2016_Haeberli%20et%20al_16a.pdf https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-127449 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.02.009 |