63.3 - True glaciers

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Masses of snow and ice formed by the consolidation under pressure of snow falling on high ground, moving outward and downward from the zone of accumulation to lower ground.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Hattersley-Smith, 1974: 195-203, 212-213; Østrem, 1974: 227-229; Whittow, 1984; Ellenberg, 1988; Clark, 1990; Einarsson, 1994: 155-162; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 35-46; Summerfield, 1991: 261-290.