In October 2024, a field campaign took place in Făgăraș Mountains, in the Bâlea glacial cirque, a key site in the project in terms of paleoenvironmental reconstruction. The purpose was to create cartographic data with a high-precision terrestrial laser scan of the cirque slopes and rockwalls using the 1km range P50 Leica scan-station. The station and targets positions were marked with a Hi-Target differential GPS system for high precision of the measurements.
By interpolating the resulting point cloud and computing a slope-aspect map, we aim to delineate the contact between different geomorphological features within the glacial cirque (debris flow couloirs and deposits, rock source areas, moraines, rock glacier and rock slope failure deposits), which can further be used in interpreting the glacial and post-glacial landscape evolution. Particularly, we focused on the eastern and northern slopes of the cirque, which host debris flow deposits on which ERT measurements were previously performed and the rock slope failure deposit which was sampled for surface exposure age determination during this summer.
