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- who: Suvrat Kaushik and collaborators from the University Savoie, CNRS, Chambery, France have published the paper: Ice Aprons in the Mont Blanc Massif (Western European Alps): Topographic Characteristics and Relations with Glaciers and Other Types of Perennial Surface Ice Features, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors show that they predominantly occur on west-oriented steep and topographically rugged rock slopes above the local Equilibrium Line Altitude (~3200 m a.s.l.) with concave profile curvatures around them that facilitate snow accumulation. The analysis shows that aprons existing at the headwall of large glaciers above . . .
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