Overview
- State-of-the-art book on tree-ring dating of natural hazards
- First extensive compilation of classical and unpublished studies in hazard related tree-ring research
- Outlines and demonstrates practical applications of tree rings in natural hazards study
- Potential utility in specialist graduate and undergraduate and technical courses
Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research (AGLO, volume 41)
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Table of contents (48 chapters)
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Tree Rings and Natural Hazards – An Introduction
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Snow Avalanches
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Landslides
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Rockfall
Reviews
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“The four editors, from the US, Canada, and Switzerland, all contribute their research to this volume, along with some 80 other investigators. The papers examine how trees record geological events, accurately dated by the evidence left in annual rings, and the inferences that may be drawn from these long records. … Most analyses are highly detailed and specific, so this material will primarily interest advanced students and scientists conducting geological hazard research. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students and researchers.” (M. K. Cleaveland, Choice, Vol. 48 (5), January, 2011)
“Tree Rings and Natural Hazards provides a needed and useful survey of a rapidly expanding area of research: using dendrochronology to study geomorphic hazards, including snow avalanches, landslides, rockfall, debris flows, flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic activity. … Any tree-ring scientist … would profit from reading this book, as would other geoscientists and specialists in natural hazards.” (Jeff Lukas, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, Vol. 43 (1), February, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
Book Subtitle: A State-of-Art
Editors: Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler, David R. Butler, Brian H. Luckman
Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8735-5Published: 22 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3217-9Published: 28 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8736-2Published: 15 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1574-0919
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 505
Number of Illustrations: 177 b/w illustrations
Topics: Natural Hazards, Historical Geology, Physical Geography, Geomorphology, Forestry, Climate Change