Thermal and hydrological conditions of the Goethe rock glacier, Central Sierra Nevada, California

• Main Author: Beaulieu, Jezra
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Western CEDAR 2013
• Subjects: Geology; Recess; ice core
• Online Access: https://cedar.wwu.edu/wwuet/307; https://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1306&context=wwuet

The potential of rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada to provide critical hydrological reservoirs and ecological habitats in a changing climate remains largely untested. In an effort to constrain the microclimatic contributions of buried ice, continuous temperatures were recorded in the near-surface d...