The retreat of glaciers
The picture, taken from the Matterhorn summit, represents the deglacialisation of the Herens valley. The glacial retreat reaches the maximum at the end of the ablation period leaving uncovered entire alpine valleys.
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- Europe (3704)
- Western Europe (740)
- Switzerland (145)
- Exact location (7.6271 E, 45.9953 N)
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5184 × 3888 px;
image/jpeg; 5.2 MB
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Sony DSC-HX60
Taken on 29
September
2019
Submitted on 31 March 2021
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Luca Bonacina (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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