Fast deformation of perennially frozen debris in a warm rock glacier in the Swiss Alps: An effect of liquid water

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Matsuoka, Norikazu ^a   Kääb, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FROZEN GROUND; INFILTRATION; INTERSTITIAL ENVIRONMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PEBBLE; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 44449096041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JF000859     Document Type: Article

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