Quelques réflexions sur la connaissance des reliefs et processus alpins chez les Romains

During Antiquity times there existed little specific vocabulary pertaining to mountainous relief. Did Romans know what glaciers, crevasses, avalanches, rock falls, seasonal torrential erosion were? Could they estimate the height of the Alps? The phenomenon and dangers of alpine geomorphology were de...

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Published in:	Revue de Géographie Alpine
Main Author:	Delphine Acolat
Format:	Article
Language:	German
Published:	Institut de Géographie Alpine 2007-09-01
Subjects:	knowledge antiquity glacier avalanche erosion alpine landforms and processes
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/rga/319