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Applications in Geomorphology
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Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements Effects of geomorphic processes on tree growth Mudflow causing trees to fall and lean. Digging out a tree buried by adjacent hillside erosion, Milledgeville, central Georgia.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements Impact Scars can be dated.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements Effects of a snow avalanche on a white spruce. Impact Scars can be dated. Impact scars from ice flows/jams.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements Impact Scars can be dated.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements
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Reaction wood: Conifers form compression wood in response to leaning and flagging. Deciduous trees form tension wood in response to leaning. Reaction wood: Conifers form compression wood in response to leaning and flagging. Deciduous trees form tension wood in response to leaning. Applications in Geomorphology: Mass Movements
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Hardwoods PUSH Conifers PULL Hardwoods PUSH Conifers PULL
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Applications in Geomorphology: Volcanology
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Effects of global-scale cooling caused by a volcanic eruption in AD 536, as seen in a Siberian pine from Mongolia. Which is the frost ring?
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Applications in Geomorphology: Volcanology Effects of global-scale cooling caused by a volcanic eruption ca. 1627 BC, as seen in a bristlecone pine. Which is the frost ring?
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Applications in Geomorphology: Seismology
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Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology Effects of a 1945 flood on growth of a ponderosa pine, Pine Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology Changes in hydrologic properties of an area.
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Bank erosion causing conifer trees to lean along the Sheepscot River in Maine.
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Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology
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Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology
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A. Radiocarbon dates
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Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology B. Tree-ring dates of glacial advances
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Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology Tree-ring dated moraines
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