Supraglacial debris thickness measurements from Miage Glacier, Italy

Two datasets containing 245 point measurements of supraglacial debris thickness on Miage Glacier, Italy. Measurements were made by manual excavation in 2006 and 2007 by Lesley Foster and in 2018 by Rebecca Stewart. 

The datasets are included here in two formats; (1) a delimited text file, and (2) a .kmz file for Google Earth. The data in each file type are identical. A Google Earth map showing an overview of the data coverage is also included as a jpg.

The debris thickness to the ice surface was measured as the distance to the ice from a horizontal reference placed on the unmodified surrounding surface bridging the excavation. Debris thickness data are reported to the nearest 0.01 m.

Most of the measurements made in 2007 were recorded along transects of the glacier surface. Each 100-m transect has been given the same grid reference for identification of these data.

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