Tree-Ring Dating of Snow Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 41, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-46

  Butler, David R ^a   Sawyer, Carol F ^b   Maas, Jacob A ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual Ring; Debris Flow; Snow Avalanche; Snow Water Equivalent; Tree Ring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051990500     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2_3     Document Type: Chapter

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