Tree Rings and Natural Hazards A State-of-Art /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stoffel, Markus (Editor), Bollschweiler, Michelle (Editor), Butler, David R. (Editor), Luckman, Brian H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Advances in Global Change Research, 41
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Historical geology.; Natural disasters.; Physical geography.; Geomorphology.; Forestry.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Historical Geology.; Physical Geography.; Climate Change.

The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage contained within the tree. However, these unique, annually resolved, tree-ring records preserve valuable archives of past earth-surfac...