Tree-ring analysis in the reconstruction of slope instabilities associated with earthquakes and precipitation (the Crimean Mountains, Ukraine)

Geomorphology

Volumn 173-174, Issue , 2012, Pages 174-184

  Šilhán, Karel ^a   Pánek, Tomáš ^a   Hradecký, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Crimean Mountains; Crimean pine; Dendrogeomorphology; Earthquake; Mass movement; Slope deformation

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE; LANDSLIDE; LIMESTONE; MASS MOVEMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RECONSTRUCTION; ROCKFALL; SLOPE DYNAMICS;

CRIMEA; CRIMEAN MOUNTAINS; UKRAINE;

PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 84865972520     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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