Sentences with phrase «trees by avalanches»

The scientists were able to date individual events by analysing the growth rings and wounds left on the trees by avalanches.

Not exact matches

With Tree line two slopes Davos from below, the pine trees struggle to remain on the surface after having been covered by the white mantle of a violent avalanche, yields a series of abstract compositions charged with movement, where we see the pines on the hillside, and the channels the avalanches formed in between them.

w.r.t. scarred trees (fire, glacier, avalanches etc)-- one would never use tree - ring data from a scarred tree for a dendroclimatic reconstruction — or at the very least one would use a measured radius where the rings were not affected by the accelerated growth around the scar.