Waxeggkees
| Waxeggkees | ||
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.jpg) The Waxeggkees below the Großer Möseler (2014) |
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| location | Tyrol , Austria | |
| Mountains | Zillertal Alps | |
| length | 1.97 km | |
| surface | 3.207 km² | |
| Exposure | Nutrient area: northeast, feeding area: north | |
| Altitude range | 3310 m above sea level A. - 2394 m above sea level A. | |
| Tilt | ⌀ 23 ° (42%) | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 0 '8 " N , 11 ° 47' 30" E | |
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| drainage | Waxeggbach → Zemmbach → Ziller → Inn | |
The Waxeggkees is a glacier in the Zillertal Alps in Tyrol .
location
The Waxeggkees extends in the Zemmgrund below the Großer Möseler ( 3480 m above sea level ) over an altitude range of around 3300 to 2400 m from the Zillertal main ridge almost 2 km to the north. The Rossrugg separates the Waxeggkees from the neighboring Hornkees to the east . With an area of around 3.2 km², the Waxeggkees is one of the larger glaciers in the Zillertal Alps. It drains over the Zemmbach to the Ziller .
decline
Like most glaciers in the Alps, the Waxeggkees has been affected by glacier melt since the middle of the 19th century . In 1850 its area was still 5.36 km² and the tongue reached down to an altitude of 1873 m . Since then, the glacier has lost around 40% of its area. This development was interrupted by an increase in the years 1960 to 1985. Since the mid-1950s, except in the lowest part, an increase in height has been measured, which increased in the years 1960 to 1969 and led to glacier swelling. There was also an increase in area and length. In the years 1970 to 1985 the Waxeggkees advanced a total of 160 m. From 1982 onwards, the nutrient area subsided, reaching down to around 2850 m , which from 1990 also had an impact in the feeding area . Since then, the Waxeggkees has withdrawn again, from 1990 to 2015 by an average of 23 m per year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS): Fluctuations of Glaciers 2005–2010 (Vol. X). Zurich 2012, p. 120 ( PDF; 5 MB )
- ^ A b c Kurt Brunner, Hermann Rentsch: The behavior of the Waxeggkees in the Zillertal Alps from 1950 to 2000. In: Zeitschrift für Gletscherkunde und Glazialgeologie, Volume 38 (2002), pp. 63–69, hdl : 10013 / epic.43084
- ↑ Peter Pindur, Helmut Heuberger: On the Holocene glacier history in the Zemmgrund in the Zillertal Alps, Tyrol / Austria (Eastern Alps). In: Journal of Glacier Science and Glacial Geology, Volume 42/2 (2008), pp. 21–89 ( PDF; 2.7 MB )
- ^ Günther Groß: The history of glacier observation and measurement in the Austrian Alps . In: Andrea Fischer et al. (Ed.): Glaciers in Transition. 125 years of the Alpine Club's glacier measuring service . Springer Spectrum, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55539-2 , p. 53-96 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-55540-8_5 .
- ^ A b Andrea Fischer, Gernot Patzelt, Hans Kinzl: Length changes of Austrian glaciers 1969-2015. Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck 2016, doi : 10.1594 / PANGEA.821823