Vehling L, Rohn J, Moser M (2019)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Springer
Edited Volumes: Geomorphology of Proglacial Systems: Landform and Sediment Dynamics in Recently Deglaciated Alpine Landscapes
Series: Geography of the Physical Environment
City/Town: Cham
Pages Range: 143-156
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94184-4_9
Since the Little Ice Age, high alpine regions have faced rapid glacier melting that has contributed to enhanced rockfall activity at recently deglaciated rockwalls. At the Gepatschferner, Kaunertal (Austria), rockfall activity has been quantified for the past several years using rockfall collector nets, `natural' rockfall traps and multi-temporal LiDAR. Toppling and sliding activity of large unstable rock blocks, considered as precursors of rockfalls, were monitored by steel tape measurements and electrical crackmeters. The highest rockfall activity was measured at recently deglaciated rockwalls with low rock mass quality, where rockwall back-weathering rates locally exceeded 10 mm/a. Those rates are among the highest ever published. 108 mid- and high-magnitude rockfalls with volumes between 100 and 30,000 m(3) were released between 2006 and 2012. Their scars are clustered in the proglacial high-altitude parts of the Kaunertal. As well, rockwall activity was concentrated in the autumn and winter months.
APA:
Vehling, L., Rohn, J., & Moser, M. (2019). Rockfall at Proglacial Rockwalls-A Case Study from the Kaunertal, Austria. In Tobias Heckmann, David Morche (Eds.), Geomorphology of Proglacial Systems: Landform and Sediment Dynamics in Recently Deglaciated Alpine Landscapes. (pp. 143-156). Cham: Springer.
MLA:
Vehling, Lucas, Joachim Rohn, and Michael Moser. "Rockfall at Proglacial Rockwalls-A Case Study from the Kaunertal, Austria." Geomorphology of Proglacial Systems: Landform and Sediment Dynamics in Recently Deglaciated Alpine Landscapes. Ed. Tobias Heckmann, David Morche, Cham: Springer, 2019. 143-156.
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