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

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: An Introduction....Pages 3-23
Front Matter....Pages 26-26
Dendrogeomorphology and Snow Avalanche Research....Pages 27-34
Tree-Ring Dating of Snow Avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA....Pages 35-46
Tracking Past Snow Avalanches in the SE Pyrenees....Pages 47-50
Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Past Snow Avalanche Events and Risk Assessment in Northern Gaspé Peninsula (Québec, Canada)....Pages 51-73
Using Dendrochronology to Validate Numerical Simulations of Snow Avalanches in the Patagonian Andes....Pages 75-78
Front Matter....Pages 80-80
Dating Landslides with Trees....Pages 81-89
Dendrogeomorphological Analysis of a Landslide near Lago, Calabria (Italy)....Pages 91-101
Tree-Ring Analysis and Rockfall Avalanches: The Use of Weighted Samples....Pages 103-105
Age of Landslides Along the Grande Rivière de la Baleine Estuary, Eastern Coast of Hudson Bay, Quebec (Canada)....Pages 107-120
Rainfall Up, Mountain Down?....Pages 121-125
Front Matter....Pages 128-128
Rockfalls and Their Hazard....Pages 129-137
Assessing Rockfall Activity in a Mountain Forest – Implications for Hazard Assessment....Pages 139-155
Tree-Ring Based Rockfall Reconstruction and Accuracy Assessment of a 3D Rockfall Model....Pages 157-160
Assessment of the Rockfall Frequency for Hazard Analysis at Solà d’Andorra (Eastern Pyrenees)....Pages 161-175
Reconstruction and Spatial Analysis of Rockfall Frequency and Bounce Heights Derived from Tree Rings....Pages 177-180
Front Matter....Pages 182-182
State of the Art in Debris-Flow Research: The Role of Dendrochronology....Pages 183-192
Using Event and Minimum Age Dating for the Assessment of Hazards on a Debris-Flow Cone....Pages 193-206
Dendrogeomorphic Applications to Debris Flows in Glacier National Park, Montana USA....Pages 207-209
Frequency–Magnitude Relationships, Seasonality and Spread of Debris Flows on a Forested Cone....Pages 211-226
Front Matter....Pages 182-182
High-Precision Dating of Debris-Flow Events Within the Growing Season....Pages 227-229
Front Matter....Pages 232-232
Tree Rings as Paleoflood and Paleostage Indicators....Pages 233-239
The Effects of Hydroelectric Flooding on a Reservoir’s Peripheral Forests and Newly Created Forested Islands....Pages 241-256
Spring Water Levels Reconstructed from Ice-Scarred Trees and Cross-Sectional Area of the Earlywood Vessels in Tree Rings from Eastern Boreal Canada....Pages 257-261
A 100-Year History of Floods Determined from Tree Rings in a Small Mountain Stream in the Tatra Mountains, Poland....Pages 263-275
Dendrohydrology and Extreme Floods Along the Red River, Canada....Pages 277-279
Front Matter....Pages 282-282
Weather and Climate Extremes: Where Can Dendrochronology Help?....Pages 283-290
Dendrotempestology and the Isotopic Record of Tropical Cyclones in Tree Rings of the Southeastern United States....Pages 291-303
Dendrochronological Responses to a Tornado....Pages 305-307
Dendroecology of Hurricanes and the Potential for Isotopic Reconstructions in Southeastern Texas....Pages 309-319
Front Matter....Pages 322-322
Wildfire Hazard and the Role of Tree-Ring Research....Pages 323-328
Mesoscale Disturbance and Ecological Response to Decadal Climatic Variability in the American Southwest....Pages 329-359
Wildfire Risk and Ecological Restoration in Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes....Pages 361-363
Wildfire Ecology and Management at Grand Canyon, USA: Tree-Ring Applications in Forest Fire History and Modeling....Pages 365-381
Wildfire Risk and Hazard in Northern Patagonia, Argentina....Pages 383-387
Front Matter....Pages 390-390
Tree Rings and Earthquakes....Pages 391-397
Application of Tree-Ring Analysis to Paleoseismology....Pages 399-416
Tree-Ring Abnormality Caused by Large Earthquake: An Example From the 1931 M 8.0 Fuyun Earthquake....Pages 417-420
Tree-Ring Dated Landslide Movements and Seismic Events in Southwestern Montana, USA....Pages 421-436
Seismic Damage in Conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone National Parks, United States....Pages 437-440
Front Matter....Pages 442-442
Studying Past Volcanic Activity with Tree Rings....Pages 443-452
Tree-Ring Evidence for the 1913 Eruption of Volcán de Fuego de Colima, Mexico....Pages 453-464
Dendrochemical Evidence of the 1781 Eruption of Mount Hood, Oregon....Pages 465-467
Volcanic Eruptions over the Last 5,000 Years from High Elevation Tree-Ring Widths and Frost Rings....Pages 469-482
Unknown Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano (Kamchatka, Russia) Around AD 1756 Identified by Dendrochronology....Pages 483-485
Late Eighteenth Century Old Maid Eruption and Lahars at Mount Hood, Oregon (USA) Dated with Tree Rings and Historical Observations....Pages 487-491
Front Matter....Pages 494-494
Whither Dendrogeomorphology?....Pages 495-502
Erratum to: Chapter 40 Seismic Damage in Conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone Parks, United States....Pages 506-506
Back Matter....Pages 503-505