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The "Hohe Gaisl" carbonatic rockglacier

Active rockglaciers are less common in the mountain ranges composed of carbonatic rocks, such as the Northern Cretaceous Alps ort he Dolomites, even if here more than lithology probably the minor mean elevation plays a role.
Although few active rockglaciers are present in the Dolomites, they have never been studied in detail.

Very old indeed - canadian permafrost much older then though

The computer models used in climate change prediction lacks an important factor – the change in permafrost geographically extension and depth. Covering at least 22 to 38 millions square kilometres, mostly in circumarctic belt, it is thawing.

But still data about the mostly hidden ground ice is not complete, about his change and the impact of this change on the climate, for example trough the release of methane in the atmosphere.

PermaNet part I

Permafrost and his change can affect heavenly infrastructures like streets and buildings in mountain areas above 2.500m a.s.l. To secure existing structures, and provide clues to build and maintain new ones in permafrost affected terrain, exchange of knowledge and experience about the permafrost issue between countries is essential.

PermaNET (Permafrost Long-Term Monitoring Network)

Kick-Off meeting PermaNET (Permafrost Long-Term Monitoring Network)
Thursday, 04.September 2008

Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

The conference will give an overview of the effects of climate change to permafrost in the Alps. The PermaNET (Permafrost Long-Term Monitoring Network) project will be presented.

Rock glacier of Wheeler Peak (California)

A hiking report about/on the rock glacier of Wheeler Peak (California)... getting closer and closer to it.

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Permafrost from Mars !?!

The planet Mars, a lifeless desert, frozen for eternity and geomorphological death since millions of years. But new imagines of the "Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)" showed scientists of the Brown University of Rhode Island and the MIT in Boston a surprise, and changed how we see this planet.

Permafrost-TV

I submit a request that I recieved recently - you can contact the original author per mail (if you want a phone number/e-mail please chek the internet-site or contact me, i only don´t post it to avoid spam). I´m not sure what they want exactly, and if it is intended only for the european context (knowing that the permafrost regions in europe are - sigh - limited). If a got additional news I will post it. Please excuse the bad english, but it is only a automatic translation:

Warm winter show unexpected influence on the permafrost

Rockglaciers online

Some online publications about rockglaciers, maybe for interest - the first are posterpresentations, the last are big pdf-files (71 to 200 MB), so I linked only the homepage with the downloads

EGU (Vienna) 15.-20.4.2007

The formation of rock glaciers from mass movements.

Permafrost Podcast

Losing our Permafrost I (ca. 4 MB mp3-file per part, right mouseklick, file save as) - Melville Island part 1 and part 2, by Dr. Lamoureux and Dr. Turetsky, or go direct to the homepage of the canadian scientific radio-transmission "Quirks & Quarks" .

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