Abstract. — The timing and duration of the meltseason has been objectively determined for five Mont-Blanc glaciers by defining critical minimum flow values of the glacial meltwaters. The smaller glaciers experienced far longer "meltseasons" than the larger glaciers, as annual melting extended more quickly to the more distant parts of the smaller basins. Significant correlations were found to exist between the surface area of each of the five glaciers and their mean meltwater discharge for each month ; interpolation from these relationships allowed the probable annual regime of meltwaters from the neighbouring, but unmonitored, Bossons Glacier, to be predicted. Measurements of sediment amounts removed by meltwaters from the Bossons Glacier ...