During the Late Glacial, the history of south alpine mountain paleoenvironments was characterized by some well documented biomorphoclimatic events. Paleoecological, geomorphological and stratigraphical data indicate a quick climatic improvement {ad quem terminus of upper Pleniglacial). This phenomenon is indicated by a vertical shift of the tree-line to low and high altitude environments, a retreat of mountain glaciers, definitive in places, and a morphogenic evolution of slopes and valleys which foretells in some aspects the dynamics of postglacial times. On the slopes at middle altitude a period of incision and progression of gullying (increasing of hydric flows) succeeds to the important period of periglacial active talus slope of uppe...