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A significant amount of dendrogeomorphic research has focused recently on the effects of isolated rockfall activity on tree growth and annual rings (reviewed in Stoffel 2006, and Schneuwly and Stoffel 2008). By comparison, however, only a few studies have used tree-ring analysis in the dating of large-scale rockfall avalanches, or bergsturz (see Butler et al. 1986). Butler et al. (1986, 1991, 1998) examined a number of rockfall avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, and used tree-ring analysis of trees severely tilted and/or scarred along the margins of the rockfall-avalanche deposits to date three of those deposits – Slide Lake at 1910 (Fig. 1), Slide Pond at 1946 (Fig. 2), and Napi Point at 1954.
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Butler, D.R. (2010). Tree-Ring Analysis and Rockfall Avalanches: The Use of Weighted Samples. In: Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Butler, D., Luckman, B. (eds) Tree Rings and Natural Hazards. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2_9
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