Melaine Le Roy
@subfossilguy
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Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem_fr
Joined January 2020
Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! π²π #treerings #fieldwork #chamonix
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She also painted the purplish cones of this species, as well as its needles grouped in fives! Very moving... when you tirelessly explore this ecotoneππ₯° 2/
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The message of trees is unequalled! π²π The 20th century drought extremes are severe on Tibetan Plateau within the past 3,500 yr, and likely linked to the weakening of both the Asian Monsoon and Westerlies due to anthropogenic aerosol emissions ππ₯
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RT @rahmstorf: We've reached 1.5Β°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7Β°C warming. A new review papeβ¦
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Sci-fi weather (and climate) π±π Guess what ? It's just begun...
SOUTH AMERICA The February worst heat wave in history will just get worse. A nightmarish week is ahead with temperatures up to 45C in Argentina,43/44C in Bolivia and Paraguay and 42C+ in Chile,Uruguay and Brazil. Dozens of records will be pulverized starting tomorrow in Chile.
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@tylekki Do you have another (horizontal) shot that could compare better (by extending slightly to the right) ?
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Glacial geomorphology to the fullest! πͺ¨π§βοΈ Holocene forefield of the Classen (foreground) and Godley (distance) Glaciers in NZ! π€© The Little Ice Age light grey drift partly overlaps older deposits from the late to mid-Holocene β±οΈ Great pic by cosmo Master @AaronPutnam14
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Morteratsch Glacier and Piz Bernina (4,048 m asl) π Sept. 2015 Was the last year before the glacier front definitely retreated above the bedrock step and hid from the flat-earthers walkers! π° 'Aerial' pic from Piz Languard (3,262 m asl) courtesy οΏ½π
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Did I miss something ? π
Just the LIA... ... but the whole LIA ! π§βοΈβͺοΈ #cartography #geomorpho #moraine
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RT @WMO: Sea levels arenβt rising the same everywhere. Over the last 30 years, the South-West Pacific has experienced faster increases thanβ¦
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Morteratsch Glacier front in late October 2024 with the new ice cave that formed this year! π§π₯ (see previous post for photos inside the cave! π¦βοΈ)
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Amazing pictures taken last week in the ice cave below the front of #Morteratsch Glacier by glaciologist @lander_vt ! π€©π§ Huge retreat of this glacier over the last years has led to formation and expansion of this cave ππ₯ Beware, it could collapse at any moment! π«
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RT @extremetemps: EXTRAORDINARY EVENT WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 46.5 Rivadavia ARGENTINA HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN FEBRUARY IN Sβ¦
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'The Cervin, from the East, and North-East' John Ruskin 1849 Ruskin came in Zermatt in 1849, a journey during which he took the first image of the Cervin (a bad quality daguerreotype) on 8th Aug w. John Hobbs π· Better are his many sketches of this mountain from every angle! π¨
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Have the best possible week π ...amid the horrors of this world Glaciers are a safe place for the mind! π€ Aletsch, last october π₯°
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