Rock avalanches on a glacier and morainic complex in Haut Val Ferret (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy)

Geomorphology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-92

  Deline, Philip ^a   Kirkbride, Martin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^b School of Social Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dating methods; Little Ice Age; Mont Blanc Massif; Rock avalanches; Supraglacial debris

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER DYNAMICS; LANDSLIDE; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORAINE; MOUNTAIN REGION; ROCK AVALANCHE;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; HAUTE SAVOIE; MONT BLANC; RHONE-ALPES; SAVOY ALPS; SWITZERLAND; VAL FERRET; VALAIS; WESTERN ALPS; WESTERN EUROPE;

MUSTELA;

EID: 55949118962     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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