Seven centuries of avalanche activity at Echalp (Queyras massif, southern French Alps) as inferred from tree rings

Holocene

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 292-304

  Corona, Christophe ^a,b   Saez, Jérôme Lopez ^b,d   Stoffel, Markus ^a,c   Rovéra, Georges ^d   Edouard, Jean Louis ^e   Berger, Frédéric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Cemagref   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

dendrogeomorphology; French Alps; frequency; multicentennial reconstruction; snow avalanche; tree rings

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER ADVANCE; GLACIER SURGE; GROWTH RATE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PROBABILITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SNOW AVALANCHE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TREE RING;

ALPS; FRANCE;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA;

EID: 84872969277     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683612460784     Document Type: Article

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