Glacial meltwater flowing from the Gepatschferner in the very right background to the Gepatsch Reservoir in the left background. Note the traces of the upper limit of the glacier during the Little Ice Age and the bright-coloured rock glacier between Vordere (3456 m) and Hintere (3296 m) Ölgrubenspitze in the centre of the image. The summit of Fluchtkogel (3500 m) can be seen in the very right background.

Keywords

alpine vegetation, fluvial processes, fluvial sedimentation, glacial processes, glacier, high-mountain ecosystems, mountainscape, mountaintop, non-tropical montane forest, periglacial processes, rock glacier, Zonobiome VI

Created

Monday 18 August 2014 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Austria (15184 visits)