Augmenting flood frequency estimates using flood-scarred trees.

Flood-damaged trees along streams and rivers in 20 localities in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah were examined to assess the feasibility of reconstructing the frequency and magnitude of floods over the last several hundred years. Tree-ring dating of the flood damage produced evidence for 17...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCord, Virgil Alexander Stuart.
Other Authors: Baker, Victor R.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1990
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185017