Revista de Geomorfologie, 2021 Vegetation is an important ecological indicator of rock glaciers' activity as its development marks the transition from active to inactive and relict states.
Razvan Popescu +3 more
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Rock glaciers in the Jutulsessen, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2018 Rock glaciers are lobate or tongue-shaped landforms which consist of rock debris and have either an ice core or an ice-cemented matrix. Characteristics such as the landscape setting, morphology, material and current geomorphological state are universally
Elizabeth M. Rudolph +4 more
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Inventory and changes of rock glacier creep speeds in Ile Alatau and Kungöy Ala-Too, northern Tien Shan, since the 1950s [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Spatio-temporal patterns related to the viscous creep in perennially frozen sediments of rock glaciers in cold mountains have rarely been studied outside the densely populated European Alps. This study investigates the spatial and temporal variability of
A. Kääb +8 more
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The First Rock Glacier Inventory for the Greater Caucasus
Geosciences, 2023 Rock glaciers are an integral part of the periglacial environment. At the regional scale in the Greater Caucasus, there have been no comprehensive systematic efforts to assess the distribution of rock glaciers, although some individual parts of ranges ...
Levan G. Tielidze +3 more
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Rock glaciers in Daxue Shan, south-eastern Tibetan Plateau: an inventory, their distribution, and their environmental controls [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2018 Rock glaciers are typical periglacial landforms. They can indicate the existence of permafrost, and can also shed light on the regional geomorphological and climatic conditions under which they may have developed.
Z. Ran, G. Liu
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InSAR-based characterization of rock glacier movement in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Rock glaciers are a prominent component of many alpine landscapes and constitute a significant water resource in some arid mountain environments. Here, we employ satellite-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) between 2016 and 2019 to ...
G. Brencher +3 more
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Transitional rock glaciers at sea level in northern Norway [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2022 Rock glaciers are geomorphological expressions of permafrost. Close to sea level in northernmost Norway, in the subarctic Nordkinn peninsula, we have observed several rock glaciers that appear to be active now or were active in the recent past ...
K. S. Lilleøren +5 more
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The First Inventory of Rock Glaciers in the Zhetysu Alatau: The Aksu and Lepsy River Basins
Remote Sensing, 2022 While rock glaciers (RGs) are widespread in the Zhetysu Alatau mountain range of Tien Shan (Kazakhstan), they have not yet been systematically investigated.
Azamat Kaldybayev +7 more
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Modal sensitivity of rock glaciers to elastic changes from spectral seismic noise monitoring and modeling [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Among mountainous permafrost landforms, rock glaciers are mostly abundant in periglacial areas, as tongue-shaped heterogeneous bodies. Passive seismic monitoring systems have the potential to provide continuous recordings sensitive to hydro-mechanical ...
A. Guillemot +6 more
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Contrasting geophysical signatures of a relict and an intact Andean rock glacier [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2022 In semi-arid Chile, rock glaciers cover more surface area than glaciers and are potentially important water reserves. To understand their current and future hydrological role, it is necessary to characterize their internal structure (e.g.
G. de Pasquale +5 more
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