While efficiency of the paraglacial reworking is largely accepted, this paper explores the drawbacks of the paraglacial model. We document some waves of negative feedback that can occur in the alpine Tabuc subcatchment (Guisane, massif des Écrins) following the post-Little Ice Age deglaciation. Some disconnections within the sedimentary cascade are due to the influence of a Late Little Ice Age frontal moraine. Coarse debris have built up the frontal moraine while sediment export consists of fine debris, carried out by proglacial streams. Such disconnections generated a significant decrease in sediment export from the upper part of the catchment since the 1950s, as revealed by the contraction of the surface of active channels in the Pré du T...