Past surface instability of Miage debris-covered glacier tongue (Mont Blanc Massif, Italy): A decadal-scale tree-ring-based reconstruction

Boreas

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 613-622

  Leonelli, Giovanni ^a   Pelfini, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIER; INSTABILITY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

ALPS; FRANCE; HAUTE SAVOIE; MONT BLANC; RHONE-ALPES; SAVOY ALPS; WESTERN ALPS;

BOREAS;

EID: 84879554123     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2012.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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