Reconstruction ability of dendrochronology in dating avalanche events in the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786515000065" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1125786515000065</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2015.02.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.dendro.2015.02.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reconstruction ability of dendrochronology in dating avalanche events in the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic

Original language description

Dendrogeomorphology represents an appropriate method for dating past avalanche events using tree-ring widths and their anatomical structure. Here, we present dendrochronological dating of avalanche events in the Giant Mountains, Czech Republic. The goalsof this study were to reconstruct past avalanche activity in the Giant Mountains, and to evaluate the dating ability of dendrochronological methods by means of comparing documentary-evidenced and dendrochronologically dated avalanche events. In total, 320 cores and 12 cross-sections were extracted from 99 trees bordering four avalanche paths. We identified 1378 markers indicating possible avalanche events. Using both the number and reliability of markers, 20 very probable and 29 probable avalanche events were dated, spanning the period 1904-2012. These results significantly expand the list of directly observed avalanches compiled since the 1960s in the studied region and provided a unique possibility to validate dating results. Dendroc

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Dendrochronologia

ISSN

1125-7865

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

34

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

1-9

UT code for WoS article

000357550000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84958151504