Visual year-round observations have shown that snow avalanches are driving the formation of rock glaciers near the glacier Larsbreen in central Svalbard. This model appeas consistent with information on the origin and geometry of internal structures
in the near-future : palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (including Mars) using current process and landform observations as analogues, year-round monitoring of processes using automatic equipment and modelling based on Geographical Information Systems.
A study area at the northeastern shore of Mellemfjord, near the western maximum limit of the Greenland Ice Sheet during the Quaternary, was chosen for an analytic landscape study. Interactions between climate and landscape processes are designated