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Geomorphological Impacts on Tree Growth: Mass Movements & Natural Phenomena

Explore effects of mass movements on tree growth, dating impact scars, and analyzing geomorphic processes. Witness reactions like reaction wood in hardwoods and conifers. Discover consequences of global cooling post-volcanic eruptions and tree-ring dating in glaciology.

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Geomorphological Impacts on Tree Growth: Mass Movements & Natural Phenomena

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  1. Applications in Geomorphology

  2. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Mudflow causing trees to fall and lean. Effects of geomorphic processes on tree growth Digging out a tree buried by adjacent hillside erosion, Milledgeville, central Georgia.

  3. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Impact Scars can be dated.

  4. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Impact Scars can be dated. Impact scars from ice flows/jams. Effects of a snow avalanche on a white spruce.

  5. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Impact Scars can be dated.

  6. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements

  7. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements

  8. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Reaction wood: Conifers form compression wood in response to leaning and flagging. Deciduous trees form tension wood in response to leaning.

  9. Applications in Geomorphology:Mass Movements Hardwoods PUSH Conifers PULL

  10. Applications in Geomorphology: Volcanology

  11. Applications in Geomorphology: Volcanology

  12. Applications in Geomorphology: Volcanology 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?

  13. 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?

  14. Applications in Geomorphology: Seismology

  15. Applications in Geomorphology: Seismology

  16. Applications in Geomorphology: Seismology

  17. Applications in Geomorphology: Seismology

  18. Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology Effects of a 1945 flood on growth of a ponderosa pine, Pine Canyon, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

  19. Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology Changes in hydrologic properties of an area.

  20. Bank erosion causing conifer trees to lean along the Sheepscot River in Maine.

  21. Applications in Geomorphology: Hydrology

  22. Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology

  23. Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology A. Radiocarbon dates

  24. B. Tree-ring datesof glacial advances Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology

  25. Applications in Geomorphology: Glaciology Tree-ring dated moraines

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