Articles | Volume 8, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-637-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-637-2020
Research article
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17 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 17 Jul 2020

The role of frost cracking in local denudation of steep Alpine rockwalls over millennia (Eiger, Switzerland)

David Mair, Alessandro Lechmann, Romain Delunel, Serdar Yeşilyurt, Dmitry Tikhomirov, Christof Vockenhuber, Marcus Christl, Naki Akçar, and Fritz Schlunegger

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