Rock glaciers and unvegetated ice-dominated moraines

General Information Legal instrument Next sub-divisions Natura

Common name:

Habitat code:

H4.3

Description:

Mixtures of ice and rocks in which the rocks ride on top of the ice (rock glaciers), or form ridges or mounds of morainic material containing buried ice (ice-core moraines), or are in the process of losing the ice to become glacial moraines. Excludes unvegetated glacial moraines where ice is no longer dominant (H5.2).

References:

Hill, M.O., Moss, D. & Davies, C.E., 2004

Code in legal instrument
Legal instrument	Habitat type legal name	Habitat type legal code
EU Habitats Directive Annex I	Permanent glaciers	8340

Next sub-divisions
EUNIS Code	Type Name	Name
H4.32	Ice-core moraines	Ice-core moraines
H4.33	Unvegetated glacial moraines in the process of formation	Unvegetated glacial moraines in the process of formation
H4.31	Rock glaciers	Rock glaciers

Sites in which this biotope type has been recorded
EUNIS Site Code	Source	Greek Natura 2000 code	Site name
S00000082		S00000082	TRIGLAVSKI NARODNI PARK