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Dendrogeomorphology – Tracking Past Events with Tree Rings

verfasst von : Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, Markus Stoffel

Erschienen in: Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones

Verlag: Springer Netherlands

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For a realistic hazard assessment, knowledge of past events is of crucial importance. As archival data is generally fragmentary, additional information sources are needed for an appraisal of past and contemporary as well as for the prediction of potential future events. Tree rings represent a very valuable natural archive on past torrential activity as they may record the impact of events in their tree-ring series. In the past few years, dendrogeomorphology has evolved from a pure dating tool to a broad range of applications. Besides the reconstruction of frequencies, tree rings allow - if coupled with spatial positioning methods - the assessment of spread, runout distance, breakout locations or preferred flow path. Similarly, the wide field of applications includes the identification of magnitudes and triggers of debris-flow events if meteorological data is included.

Tree rings were first used for the pure dating of wood, for instance in archaeology. However, in the 1970s, researcher started drawing environmental information from tree rings as their growth reflects the influences to which a tree is exposed during its live. The term “dendrogeomorphology” was first introduced in the 1970s by Alestalo (1971) and refers to the study of geomorphic processes with tree rings. The method was then further developed by Shroder (1978, 1980) and Braam et~al. (1987a, b).

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Titel: Dendrogeomorphology – Tracking Past Events with Tree Rings
verfasst von: Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler
Markus Stoffel
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Buch: Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-4335-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-007-4336-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4336-6_10

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