This Master thesis gains important insights into the geology and geomorphology of the Futschöl valley, a side valley in the rear Jamtal of the Silvretta Mountain Group in Tyrol, Austria, through a multi-method approach. It is particularly important to understand the geology and its infuence on the rock glaciers, because the geology has an impact on the solutes in the rock glacier springs and the structure of the rock glaciers, which in turn determines their melting, movement and runoff behaviour.
In this study, the bedrock geology and Quaternary geomorphology of the valley was mapped. Four rock glaciers were analysed with regard to their formation and state of activity. Several methods were carried out over a period of two years, 2020 and 2021. Measurements of the Bottom Temperature of the Snow cover and estimates of the flow velocity based on a series of orthophotos (1950-2020) allowed the classification of two rock glaciers as active and two others as relict. Analysis of historical maps and orthophotos revealed that one rock glacier is glacier-disrupted and eroded in its back due to the maximum glacier extent of 1850 and is therefore older. For the other three, the 1970-74 orthophotos show glacial ice remnants in the area of the rock glaciers, leading to the conclusion that all three originated from glaciers and were formed during deglaciation since the Little Ice Age.