Laki eruption of 1783, tree rings, and disaster for northwest Alaska Inuit

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1365-1371

  Jacoby, Gordon C ^a   Workman, Karen W ^b   D'Arrigo, Rosanne D ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMINE; NATURAL DISASTER; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE RING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033213512     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-3791(98)00112-7     Document Type: Article

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