A regional reconstruction of debris-flow activity in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria

Geomorphology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 41-50

  Procter, Emily ^a   Bollschweiler, Michelle ^a,b   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b   Neumann, Mathias ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Austrian Alps; Debris flow; Dendrogeomorphology; Dolomite; Pinus mugo ssp. uncinata; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

DATING METHOD; DEBRIS FLOW; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOLOMITE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTORICAL RECORD; NATURAL HAZARD; RECONSTRUCTION; TORRENT; TREE RING;

ALPS; AUSTRIA;

ABIES ALBA; PICEA ABIES; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 79958754563     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.04.035     Document Type: Article

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