A Multi-Faceted Debris-Flood Hazard Assessment for Cougar Creek, Alberta, Canada
Hydrology, 2017 A destructive debris flood occurred between 19 and 21 June 2013 on Cougar Creek, located in Canmore, Alberta. Cougar Creek fan is likely the most densely developed alluvial fan in Canada.
Matthias Jakob +4 more
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica, 2016 This article utilizes dendrogeomorphology to investigate the spatial and temporal variation of mass movement dynamics on south-eastfacing slopes of the Krušné Hory Mountains, an area affected by open-pit mining.
Jan Burda
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Recent debris flows in the Portainé catchment (Eastern Pyrenees, Spain): analysis of monitoring and field data focussing on the 2015 event [PDF]
, 2017 The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10346-017-0832-9During the night of the 21 August 2015, a debris flow took place in one of the presently most active ravines of the Pyrenees, the Portainé torrent (Eastern ...
Genova, Mar +6 more
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Rapid Estimation of Soil Erosion Rate from Exhumed Roots (Xiaolong Mts, China)
LandSoil erosion is a challenge worldwide, including in China. The dendrogeomorphic method was applied, for the first time, at Xiaolong Mts in Gansu Province to obtain a quantitative estimate of the soil erosion rate.
Miklós Kázmér +3 more
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Landslide reconstruction and monitoring in Brienz based on dendrogeomorphology [PDF]
, 2023 Mass movements such as landslides and rockfalls are driving forces in mountainous regions and pose a major threat to its people and infrastructure. The alpine village of Brienz in Switzerland is threatened by both an ongoing landslide and the danger of a
Bringolf, Andrea Lina
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Datación de avenidas torrenciales y flujos de derrubios mediante metodologías dendrogeomorfológicas (barranco de Portainé, Lleida, España). [PDF]
, 2015 La dendrogeomorfología resulta una herramienta muy útil en el análisis científico-técnico de las avenidas y flujos de derrubios en torrentes de alta montaña, en los que las fuentes de datos convencionales (caudales o precipitaciones) son escasas o ...
Calvet i Porta, Jaume +5 more
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A Review of Studies Dealing with Tree Rings and Rockfall Activity: The Role of Dendrogeomorphology in Natural Hazard Research [PDF]
, 2018 Over the last few years, rockfall research has increasingly focused on hazard assessment and risk analysis. Input data on past rockfall activity were gathered from historical archives and lichenometric studies or were obtained through frequency-volume ...
Stoffel, M.
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SNOW AVALANCHE ACTIVITY IN PARÂNG SKI AREA REVEALED BY TREE-RINGS [PDF]
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Geographia, 2014 Snow Avalanche Activity in Parâng Ski Area Revealed by Tree-Rings. Snow avalanches hold favorable conditions to manifest in Parâng Mountains but only one event is historically known, without destructive impact upon infrastructure or fatalities and this ...
F. MESEȘAN +2 more
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Tree-ring reconstruction of past debris flows based on a small number of samples—possibilities and limitations [PDF]
, 2018 Tree-ring analyses have often been used in the past for the reconstruction of spatiotemporal patterns of previous debris-flow activity, often yielding very precise and extensive data for torrents where information on former activity was largely missing ...
Bollschweiler, Michelle, Stoffel, Markus
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Spatio-temporal variability in debris-flow activity: a tree-ring study at Geisstriftbach (Swiss Alps) extending back to AD 1736 [PDF]
, 2018 Past debris-flow activity on the forested cone of the Geisstriftbach torrent (St. Niklaus, Valais, Swiss Alps) was assessed from growth disturbances in old conifer trees, providing a much improved record of past events.
Bollschweiler, Michelle +3 more
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