Application of tree ring analysis to paleoseismology

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 109-124

  Jacoby, Gordon C ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOPHYSICS; HAZARDS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HISTORICAL RECORDS; INDIVIDUAL TREE; SEISMIC DISTURBANCES; TREE RING DATING; TREE-RING ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; PALAEOSEISMOLOGY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RISK;

EID: 0031414068     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RG03526     Document Type: Article

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