Processes and Hazards in Steep Bedrock Permafrost
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2019)
Special Issue Editor
2. EDYTEM Lab, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France
Interests: permafrost; steep slopes; rock falls; periglacial geomorphology; hydrogeology and mechanical behaviour of frozen rock; response of the cryosphere to climate change; adaptation to risks and environmental changes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Steep bedrock permafrost has been increasingly studied during the past two decades in conjunction with the increasing frequency and magnitude of steep bedrock failures in mountain environments. While permafrost can enhance the stability of steep slopes, its degradation can also prepare and trigger rock slope failures. Understanding steep bedrock thermal regime and destabilization patterns is therefore essential to address hazards and risks associated to steep bedrock failures, but also the geomorphic processes and landscape evolution, notably the paraglacial slope adjustments.
This Special Issue aims at compiling studies which enhance our understanding of steep bedrock permafrost processes, encompassing their thermal dynamics, kinematics, mechanics, hazards and related landscape evolution. Papers addressing periglacial processes affecting shallow layers of steep bedrock slopes are also welcome. Furthermore, this Special Issue also encourages studies focusing on methodological developments to investigate steep bedrock permafrost, that is inaccessible, and therefore remains a highly challenging research field.
Dr. Florence Magnin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Steep bedrock permafrost
- Periglacial processes
- Kinematics
- Mechanics
- Steep slope failures
