Rock Glaciers
Short-term velocity variations at three rock glaciers and their relationship with meteorological conditions
... two rock glacier tongues. Our measurements further revealed that all rock glaciers experience clear intra-annual variations in movement in which the timing and the amplitude is reasonably similar in ...
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Rock glaciers on the run – understanding rock glacier landform evolution and recent changes from numerical flow modeling
... the rock glacier ...the rock glacier ...within rock glaciers is variable with depth (Haeberli et ...the rock glacier, where shear stresses are highest and temperatures the warmest, and ...
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Evaluating the destabilization susceptibility of active rock glaciers in the French Alps
... all rock glaciers subjected to these external forces destabi- ...in rock glaciers mainly causes permafrost thaw and results in inactivation (Scapozza et ...the rock glacier to this ...
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Mapping and inventorying active rock glaciers in the northern Tien Shan of China using satellite SAR interferometry
... We further estimated ground displacements using the InSAR measurements. We unwrapped the interferograms using the minimum cost flow method by selecting a reference point in the flat area with high coherence. For any ARG ...
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Palaeoclimatic significance of rock glaciers in Sierra Nevada. A first approach
... the rock glaciers in Sierra Nevada are located between 2460 and 3360 m ...of rock glaciers lying on the southern ...of rock glaciers suggests average temperatures 6º C lower than ...
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Rock glaciers in Daxue Shan, south-eastern Tibetan Plateau: an inventory, their distribution, and their environmental controls
... Abstract. Rock glaciers are typical periglacial ...first rock glacier inventory of Daxue Shan, south-eastern Tibetan ...295 rock glaciers were identified in Daxue Shan, covering a total ...
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Dynamic, evolution and structure of Pyrenean rock glaciers
... four rock glaciers studied. Rock glaciers show a wide range of horizontal displacements, although the displacements are moder- ate in all cases, except the Argualas rock glacier, with ...
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Surface motion of active rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA: inventory and a case study using InSAR
... of rock glaciers in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA, few efforts have been made to measure their surface ...active rock glaciers in this ...these rock glaciers moved at ...
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Assessment of permafrost distribution maps in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region using rock glaciers mapped in Google Earth
... Rock glaciers are a widespread feature in many parts of the HKH region, but very limited research has been conducted on ...active rock glaciers vary between 3850 and 5100 m a.s.l.. Inactive ...
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Internal structure of two alpine rock glaciers investigated by quasi-3-D electrical resistivity imaging
... different rock glaciers in the Eastern Swiss Alps by means of quasi-3-D electrical resistivity imaging ...Nair rock glacier, we discovered a gradual de- scent of the frost table in a downslope ...
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The formation of valley wall rock glaciers
... Chapter 2: Rock Glaciers - A Review: 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Definition and classification 2.2.1 Introduction 2.2.2 Classification by morphology 2.2.3 Classification by activity 2.2.4 Mixed[r] ...
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Location and morpholometric characterization of relict rock glaciers of the Gistredo Range (Cantabrian Mountains, León)
... (RILA; rock glacier initiation line altitude), en la Sierra de Gistredo, la posición de la RILA ha sido calculada, para la mayoría de los casos, en torno a los 1800-1850 m, tal como revelan los datos referidos a ...
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Distribution of relict rock glaciers in the Cantabrian Mountains (León, Spain)
... Humlum (1988, 2000) propuso una línea a partir de la cual aparecen estas formas de relieve, la R.I.L.A. (Rock glacier Initiation Line Altitude), que se define por la rup- tura de pendiente neta que se observa ...
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Rock glaciers in the central Cantabrian Mountains: palaeoenvironmental indicators
... Se ha establecido una cronología relativa para cada glaciar rocoso inventariado conforme a la evolución glaciar establecida en esta porción de la Cordillera Cantábrica: un Máximo Glaciar[r] ...
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Thermal remote sensing of ice-debris landforms using ASTER: an example from the Chilean Andes
... Abstract. Remote sensors face challenges in characteriz- ing mountain permafrost and ground thermal conditions or mapping rock glaciers and debris-covered glaciers. We ex- plore the potential of ...
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The effect of rock composition on muon tomography measurements
... this technology to examine karstic caves in the Hungarian mountains. Our group is presently carrying out an experi- mental campaign in the central Swiss Alps for the purpose of imaging glacier–bedrock interfaces ...
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Seasonal to decadal variability in ice discharge from the Greenland Ice Sheet
... northernmost glaciers (Steensby, ...small glaciers near the central eastern margin were too sparse to derive a continuous time series and we instead estimate an annual D for these ...
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Spatial variability in mass loss of glaciers in the everest region, central Himalayas, between 2000 and 2015
... 000 glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalayas and the Karakoram (Bajracharya et ...Himalayan glaciers is predominantly negative, with accelerating mass loss having been observed over the past few decades ...
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Debris thickness of glaciers in the Everest area (Nepal Himalaya) derived from satellite imagery using a nonlinear energy balance model
... Foster et al. (2012) is the first study, to the authors’ knowl- edge, that accurately derives debris thickness from satellite imagery. The model uses a digital elevation model (DEM) generated from an airborne lidar ...
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Peculiar Characteristics of Fragmentation of Glaciers: A Case Study of Western Himalaya, India
... Himalayan glaciers is decreasing where number of glaciers is ...in glaciers. Two glaciers from the two different basins have been taken into the consideration for this ...these glaciers ...
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