Bilan sédimentaire ; Bilan énergétique ; Glaciaire ; Montagne ; Mouvement de masse ; Suisse ; Valais ; Zone froide ; Zone proglaciaire
Cold area ; Energy balance ; Glacial features ; Mass movement ; Mountain ; Proglacial zone ; Sediment budget ; Switzerland ; Valais
This paper discusses the merits of an energetics approach to quantifying sediment transfer processes in the Bas Glacier d'Arolla proglacial zone, Valais, during the 1987 melt-season. Energy estimates, based on sediment transfer processes, range over