Université de Fribourg

Petrophysical joint inversion applied to alpine permafrost field sites to image subsurface ice, water, air, and rock contents

Mollaret, Coline ; Wagner, Florian M. ; Hilbich, Christin ; Scapozza, Cristian ; Hauck, Christian

In: Frontiers in Earth Sc-ience, 2020, vol. 8, p. -

Quantification of ground ice is crucial for understanding permafrost systems and modeling their ongoing degradation. The volumetric ice content is however rarely estimated in permafrost studies, as it is particularly difficult to retrieve. Standard borehole temperature monitoring is unable to provide any ice content estimation, whereas non-invasive geophysical techniques, such as refraction ...

Université de Fribourg

Assessing the rock glacier kinematics on three different timescales: a case study from the southern Swiss Alps

Scapozza, Cristian ; Lambiel, Christophe ; Bozzini, Claudio ; Mari, Stefano ; Conedera, Marco

In: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 2014, vol. 39, no. 15, p. 2056–2069

Surface temperature increases since the 1990s have often been associated with an increase in the speed of rock glaciers. Evidence of similar links on the centennial to millennial scale are, however, still lacking due to less focus to date on the medium- and long-term kinematics of these landforms. In order to assess (palaeo)climatic variations in rock glacier kinematics, we analysed the movements...

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Internal structure and permafrost distribution in two alpine periglacial talus slopes, Valais, Swiss Alps

Scapozza, Cristian ; Lambiel, Christophe ; Baron, Ludovic ; Marescot, Laurent ; Reynard, Emmanuel

In: Geomorphology, 2011, vol. 132, no. 3-4, p. 208-221

In order to determine the spatial extension and the characteristics of permafrost within alpine talus slopes, two sites located in the western part of the Swiss Alps were studied using borehole drilling and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) profiles. Three boreholes were drilled along an upslope–downslope transect in both talus slopes. In both sites, frozen sediments are present only in...