Mass Movements in Periglacial Environments

Changes in temperature and precipitation have a range of impacts, including change of glacier extent, extent and duration of snow cover, and distribution and thermal properties of permafrost. Climatic changes are also likely to affect the frequency and magnitude of mass movements, such as landslides, debris flows, rock slope failures, or ice avalanches. However, changes in mass‐movement activity can only hardly be detected in observational records so far. Documented here is the role of climate variability and change on mass‐movement processes in mountains, through the description and analysis of selected, recent mass movements where the effects of global warming and the occurrence of heavy precipitation are thought to have contributed to, or triggered, events. Also assessed are possible effects of future climatic changes on the incidence of mass‐movement processes.

Climate change · Climatology · Debris · Geography · Geomorphology · Glacier · Global warming · Landslide · Mass movement · Meteorology · Permafrost · Physical geography · Precipitation · Range (aeronautics) · Rock glacier · Snow · Climate change and permafrost · Cryospheric studies and observations · Environmental Science · Geology · Landslides and related hazards · Oceanography

• Paraglacial geomorphology

  Open Access•Colin K Ballantyne•Quaternary Science Reviews•2002

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