Rock glaciers throughout the French Alps accelerated and destabilised since 1990 as air temperatures increased

M Marcer, A Cicoira, D Cusicanqui, X Bodin… - … Earth & Environment, 2021 - nature.com
Rock glaciers—ice-rich cree** landforms typical of permafrost mountain ranges—can
develop an anomalous landslide-like behaviour called destabilisation. This behaviour is …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking rockglacier evolution in the Eastern Alps from the Lateglacial to the early Holocene

O Steinemann, JM Reitner, S Ivy-Ochs, M Christl… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Relict rockglaciers are distinctive indicators of past permafrost occurrence. Their lower limit
is attributed to a former mean annual air temperature (MAAT) of below− 2° C. This study …

[HTML][HTML] The distribution and hydrological significance of rock glaciers in the Nepalese Himalaya

DB Jones, S Harrison, K Anderson, HL Selley… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Nepalese Himalaya, there is little information on the number, spatial
distribution and morphometric characteristics of rock glaciers, and this information is …

A general theory of rock glacier creep based on in‐situ and remote sensing observations

A Cicoira, M Marcer, I Gärtner‐Roer… - Permafrost and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ongoing acceleration in rock glacier velocities concurrent with increasing air
temperatures, and the widespread onset of rock glacier destabilization have reinforced the …

Rock glaciers and the geomorphological evolution of deglacierizing mountains

J Knight, S Harrison, DB Jones - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rock glaciers are an important geomorphic element of glaciated mountain landscapes, but
our understanding of their distribution and ages, controls on their development, and their …

Evaluating sources of uncertainty and variability in rock glacier inventories

F Brardinoni, R Scotti, R Sailer… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to evaluate sources of uncertainty and variability associated with rock
glacier inventories compiled from remotely sensed imagery. To this end, we ran three …

Interpretation of volume and flux changes of the Laurichard rock glacier between 1952 and 2019, French Alps

D Cusicanqui, A Rabatel, C Vincent… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rock glaciers are cree** bodies of ice and rock that account for an important part of the
mountain cryosphere. In this study, we investigated long‐term changes of the Laurichard …

Inventory of rock glaciers in Himachal Himalaya, India using high-resolution Google Earth imagery

P Pandey - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Little information about the number, spatial distribution, and characteristics of rock glaciers in
Himachal Himalaya is available. This information is crucial to assess the hydrological …

Estimating permafrost distribution in the maritime Southern Alps, New Zealand, based on climatic conditions at rock glacier sites

K Sattler, B Anderson, A Mackintosh, K Norton… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Alpine permafrost occurrence in maritime climates has received little attention, despite
suggestions that permafrost may occur at lower elevations than in continental climates. To …