View from Niwenalp in SW direction to the Illgraben with its large debris cone. The Illgraben represents a very active and well-surveyed debris flow catchment. The large forest occupying the left side of the cone is the Pfynwald, representing the border between the German-speaking and French-speaking parts of the Valais. The prehistoric rock avalanche of Sierre can be seen in the right centre of the photo.

Keywords

cloudscape, cultural landscape, debris flow, fluvial processes, fluvial sedimentation, glacial processes, landslide, landslide deposit, mountainscape, mountaintop, rock avalanche, villagescape, Zonobiome VI

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Sunday 1 September 2013 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Switzerland (3477 visits)