Snow avalanche - disturbance of high mountain environment. Case study - The doamnei glacial valley the Fǎgǎraş Massif-Southern Carpathians, Romanian Carpathians

Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-108

  Voiculescu, Mircea ^a   Ardelean, Florina ^a  

^a WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMISOARA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Climatic variables; Dendrocronological method; Disturbance; Environmental high mountain; F g ra ; Geomorphic and vegetation indicators; Massif; Snow avalanche; Southern carpathians; Terrain factors

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIAL LANDFORM; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; SNOW AVALANCHE; TERRAIN; VEGETATION;

FAGARAS MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA;

ABIES; PICEA;

EID: 84855857596     PISSN: 18424090     EISSN: 1844489X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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