A chronology of high-magnitude snow avalanches reconstructed from archived newspapers

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 313-324

  Sawyer, Carol F ^a   Butler, David R ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical research; Natural disasters; Newspapers; Print media; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645815096     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653560610659856     Document Type: Article

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