Estimating glacier-bed overdeepenings as possible sites of future lakes in the de-glaciating Mont Blanc massif (Western European Alps)

• Main Authors: Magnin, Florence, Haeberli, Wilfried, Linsbauer, Andreas, Deline, Philip, Ravanel, Ludovic
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; Earth-Surface Processes; Mont Blanc; New Lakes; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/177462/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/177462/1/2019_Magnin_et_al_2020_Geomorphology.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-177462; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2019.106913

De-glaciating high mountain areas result in new landscapes of bedrock and debris where permafrost can degrade, persist or even newly form in cases, and of new lakes in glacier bed overdeepenings (GBOs) becoming ice-free. These landscapes with new lakes in close neighborhood to over-steepened and per...