Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-455-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-455-2025
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19 Nov 2025
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Recovering environmental information from steep Alpine ice – development of a lightweight decametric ice corer and first use at Grandes Jorasses (4208 m a.s.l., Mont-Blanc massif)

Ludovic Ravanel, Romain Duphil, Emmanuel Malet, Christine Piot, Olivier Alemany, Xavier Cailhol, and Michel Fauquet
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Ice aprons are little-known ice masses on steep Alpine rock faces. They are also paleo-environmental archives as their ice is several thousand years old. A special corer has been developed to sample the ice before analysing it.
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