Rock glaciers, Upper Engadin, Switzerland  View Catalog Page Entry ID
GGD288
Summary
The investigated region is called Upper Engadin and is situated in the Eastern part of the Swiss Alps. The area is characterized by a high situated valley floor with an average altitude of 1700 m asl. This valley has a very smooth slope in the direction from SW to NE and is characterized by the river Inn and some larger lakes (Lake Sils, Lake Silvaplana, Lake Champfer and Lake St. Moritz). At upper most part the valley breaks sharply down to the valley of the Maira river in the Bergell mountains. There were mapped three categories of rock glaciers. 1) 97 active rock glaciers, 2) 47 inactive rock glaciers and 3) 26 fossil or relict rock glaciers. The mapping was performed with infrared aerial photographs taken by the Swiss Federal Office of Cadastral Surveys (Vermessungsdirektion). The scale of the photographs is around 1 to 52000. The data are described in Hoelzle (1989, unpublished). The following parameters of each rock glacier were measured. Front elevation [m asl], source elevation [m asl], length [m], width [m], front exposition, source exposition, and coordinates [Swiss national system]. These data are presented on the CAPS Version 1.0 CD-ROM, June 1998.
Geographic Coverage
Spatial Coordinates:
N: 46.55°
S: 46.367°
E: 9.967°
W: 9.733°
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Data Set Citation
Dataset Creator: Hoelzle, M
Dataset Title: Rock glaciers, Upper Engadin, Switzerland
Dataset Release Date: 1998-01-01
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, Colorado USA
Dataset Publisher: NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Online Resource: http://nsidc.org/data/ggd288.html
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 1988-07-01
Stop Date: 1988-07-31
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT EUROPE WESTERN EUROPE SWITZERLAND UPPER ENGADIN, EASTERN SWISS ALPS
Science Keywords
- Cryosphere Frozen Ground Periglacial Processes
- Cryosphere Frozen Ground Rock Glaciers
- Land Surface Frozen Ground Periglacial Processes
- Land Surface Frozen Ground Rock Glaciers
Ancillary Keywords
- Mapping
- Remote Sensing
- Rock Glaciers
- Topographic Survey
Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
NSIDC Frozen Ground Data Center
Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/fgdc/
Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC FGDC User Services
Phone: 1 303 492-6199
Fax: 1 303 492-2468
Email: nsidc@nsidc.org
Contact Address:
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
- CIRES, 449 UCB
- University of Colorado
City: Boulder
Province or State: CO
Postal Code: 80309-0449
Country: USA
Distribution
Distribution Media: FTP
Distribution Format: ASCII Text
Personnel
Martin Hoelzle
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Phone: 41 1 635 5139
Fax: 41 4 635 6848
Email: hoelzle@geo.unizh.ch
Contact Address:
- University of Zurich
- Department of Geography, Physical Geography Division
- Winterthurerstr. 190
City: Zurich
Postal Code: CH-8057
Country: Switzerland
Metadata Name and Version
Metadata Name: CEOS IDN DIF
Metadata Version: 9.7
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 1998-01-01
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-08-29
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