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Slope processes and alpine soils

Review test

 

  1. Explain the scales of frost weathering and rock falls.
     
  2. Exlain how the different mass movements processes influence their environment.
     
  3. Explain possible influences of global change on each of the mass movement processes.
     
  4. Explain how disturbances influence alpine soil development and what kind of disturbances exist.
     
  5. Explain the influence of the main soil formation factors on soil development.
     
  6. The present soils are sometimes relicts. How can this be explained?
     

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29 August 2011
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