Visual dating of rockfall scars in Larix decidua trees

Geomorphology

Volumn 245, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-72

  Trappmann, Daniel ^a   Stoffel, Markus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dendrogeomorphology; Rockfall; Scars; Tree rings

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; DATING METHOD; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; MASS WASTING; ROCKFALL; TREE RING; VISUAL ANALYSIS; WOUNDING;

LARIX DECIDUA;

EID: 84930946045     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.04.030     Document Type: Article

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