“Tracciare l’Antropocene in ambiente glaciale: gli effetti indiretti dell’uomo sul Monte Rosa - Tracing the Anthropocene in a glacial environment: the indirect effects of mankind on Monte Rosa”, in AA.VV., “Il Monte Rosa”, Catalogo Mostra Adieu des Glaciers

Abstract

Many researchers are currently trying to detect the hints of the beginning of a “human” geological epoch, the so-called Anthropocene, and they are also addressing the Alpine environments to study the anthropic impacts on glacial environments. To this end, applied geography methods can be used to retrieve geographical data from glacier photographs, which can then be processed and used for measurements and comparisons. This study tested them to create a historical-environmental map on the Lys Glacier. The results are precious: they can help researchers in confirming the moraine dating, as well as in producing estimates on the position of past glacial termini. These methods allow also to obtain new indirect measurements, so that the study of past changes can be linked to the analysis of current changes