63.32 - Cirque and valley glaciers

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Glaciers constrained by topography, including cirque glaciers, valley glaciers, mountain glaciers, piedmont glaciers. They are characteristic, in particular, of the large mountain ranges of the Alpine system, occurring also in arctic regions, notably on Novaya Zemlya, in the subpolar and polar Urals, in the east Siberian mountains and, locally, in Iceland.

Bibliography

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: 208-209; Østrem, 1974: 227-229, ; Whittow, 1984; Ellenberg, 1988; Clark, 1990; Einarsson, 1994: 162; Gudmundsson and Kjartansson, 1996: 45-46; Summerfield, 1991: 261-290.