Data and permafrost frontiers in South America.

SAITO, KAZUYUKI; PECKER MARCOSIG IVANNA; DARIO TROMBOTTO

Potsdam

Congreso; International Conference on Permafrost; 2016

Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research International Permafrost Association

Geomorphological analyses of cold environments in the Andes show interesting and remarkable geoforms, periglacial cryoforms of different spatial scales such as rock glaciers, cryoplanation surfaces, solifluction forms, cryogenic sedimentary slopes, either sorted orcryoturbated structures and patterned ground. This is mountain permafrost that the GCM 2015 could not properly capture, e.g. the location of the rock glaciers rich in ice which is lower than the altitude of the lower permafrost level.