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Assiduous dendroglaciologist, moraine lover, wandering geomorphologist, living in the Holocene, climate (and eco-) anxious, @edytem_fr

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Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍 #treerings #fieldwork #chamonix

subfossilguy's tweet image. Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍
#treerings #fieldwork #chamonix
subfossilguy's tweet image. Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍
#treerings #fieldwork #chamonix
subfossilguy's tweet image. Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍
#treerings #fieldwork #chamonix
subfossilguy's tweet image. Still at #merdeglace for Day 6 of #7daysoffieldwork to celebrate 10 years of sampling and ~400 subfossil wood samples retrieved from this single moraine ! 🌲💍
#treerings #fieldwork #chamonix

Fee Glacier today! 🤩 Incredible retreat of both parts! Here, the western part below the Alphubel and the Täschhorn, which used to descend lower...

subfossilguy's tweet image. Fee Glacier today! 🤩

Incredible retreat of both parts!

Here, the western part below the Alphubel and the Täschhorn, which used to descend lower...

Last rays on the Dom (4545 m) tonight, the highest mountain entirely in Switzerland! 🏔

subfossilguy's tweet image. Last rays on the Dom (4545 m) tonight, the highest mountain entirely in Switzerland! 🏔

Hobarg Glacier and Hobarghorn (4218 m) tonight! 🥰

subfossilguy's tweet image. Hobarg Glacier and Hobarghorn (4218 m) tonight! 🥰

Monte Rosa (4634 m) tonight! 🤩

subfossilguy's tweet image. Monte Rosa (4634 m) tonight! 🤩

The Kinhorn (3750 m) in the Mischabels range tonight! 🤩

subfossilguy's tweet image. The Kinhorn (3750 m) in the Mischabels range tonight! 🤩

Such an impressive mountain! 🏔 The Weisshorn (4506 m) tonight from Weisshornhütte! 😍

subfossilguy's tweet image. Such an impressive mountain! 🏔

The Weisshorn (4506 m) tonight from Weisshornhütte! 😍

Pure Beauty! 🤩 Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) tonight!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Pure Beauty! 🤩

Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) tonight!

How many moraine ridges can you spot here ?

subfossilguy's tweet image. How many moraine ridges can you spot here ?

The sun has just passed behind the Zinalrothorn, revealing the entire Hohlicht Glacier and its extinct front at the valley bottom! 😰

subfossilguy's tweet image. The sun has just passed behind the Zinalrothorn, revealing the entire Hohlicht Glacier and its extinct front at the valley bottom! 😰

The beautiful Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) at the end of the Täschalp! 😍

subfossilguy's tweet image. The beautiful Rimpfischhorn (4199 m) at the end of the Täschalp! 😍

Moraines are eroding. Streams are meandering.

subfossilguy's tweet image. Moraines are eroding.

Streams are meandering.

Inside the ice cave of the Hohlicht Glacier! 🧊 Mischabels at the background! 🏔

subfossilguy's tweet image. Inside the ice cave of the Hohlicht Glacier! 🧊

Mischabels at the background! 🏔

At the foreground is the relict front of the Hohlicht Glacier separated by hundreds of metres of elevation from the active front! 😰

subfossilguy's tweet image. At the foreground is the relict front of the Hohlicht Glacier separated by hundreds of metres of elevation from the active front! 😰

Zinalrothorn (4 221 m) towering the mighty Hohlicht Glacier and its magnificent forefield today!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Zinalrothorn (4 221 m) towering the mighty Hohlicht Glacier and its magnificent forefield today!

Dragon's last breath before falling asleep!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Dragon's last breath before falling asleep!

Have you ever seen a landslide destroying a moraine – the deposit of which is now overlooking a proglacial lake in formation where icebergs float? Now you have!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Have you ever seen a landslide destroying a moraine – the deposit of which is now overlooking a proglacial lake in formation where icebergs float?

Now you have!

Findelen impressive glacier forefield features all that is present in textbooks: lengthy lateral moraines, beautiful roches moutonnées and a huge floodplain!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Findelen impressive glacier forefield features all that is present in textbooks: lengthy lateral moraines, beautiful roches moutonnées and a huge floodplain!

Findelen glacier front and its now well developped proglacial lake towered by Adlerhorn (3987 m) today!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Findelen glacier front and its now well developped proglacial lake towered by Adlerhorn (3987 m) today!

Guten morgen! 😍

subfossilguy's tweet image. Guten morgen! 😍

Morning! :) Choose your side, light or shadow!

subfossilguy's tweet image. Morning! :)

Choose your side, light or shadow!

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