When warm summer air melts the surface of a glacier, the meltwater bores holes down through the ice. It makes its way all the way down to the bottom of the glacier where it runs between the ice and the glacier bed, and eventually shoots out in a plume at the glacier base and into ...
Our interpretation is that of a highly complex latero-terminal moraine, resulting from interaction between previous glacier advance, recession and outburst flooding. If the base-level Spillway Lake continues to expand to a fully formed moraine-dammed glacial lake, the degradation of the ice core ...
Plant succession and soil development on the foreland of the Morteratsch glacier (Pontresina, Switzerland):Straight forward or chaotic? As study area we selected the glacier foreland of Morteratsch (approx. 1900-2100m a.s.l.) near Pontresina northwest of the Bernina pass, Upper Engadine, Gr...
I can think of about a hundred people who’d argue that writing this post is the dumbest, most counterproductive thing I could possibly do— that I’m not only burning my bridges behind me, but burning others before I come to them. These people would tell me to keep my opinions to my...