Tree-ring analysis and Quaternary geology: Principles and recent applications

Geomorphology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 259-272

  Wiles, Gregory C ^a   Calkin, Parker E ^b   Jacoby, Gordon C ^a  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY; QUATERNARY GEOLOGY; TREE RING; WITNESS TREE;

EID: 0030440932     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(96)80005-5     Document Type: Article

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