The Cryosphere (Feb 2023)

Comment on “Ice content and interannual water storage changes of an active rock glacier in the dry Andes of Argentina” by Halla et al. (2021)

  • W. B. Whalley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-699-2023
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17
pp. 699 – 700

Abstract

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Recently published work on water preservation in Chile assumes that “permafrost” (cryogenic) rock glaciers are dominant. Melt pond development shows that rock glaciers are glacier-derived (“glacigenic”) rather than of permafrost origin.