Spatial and temporal patterns of talus activity - a lichenometric approach in the stubaier alps, austria

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-391

  Sass, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lichenometry; Permafrost; Rockfall; Talus

Indexed keywords

BOULDER; DEBRIS AVALANCHE; LICHENOMETRY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PERMAFROST; ROCKFALL; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLOPE STABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TALUS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ALPS; AUSTRIA; CENTRAL ALPS; STUBAI ALPS; TYROL;

RHIZOCARPON;

EID: 77956456348     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2010.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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