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Dendrochronology has been applied successfully for dating different types of slope movements, including rockfalls (Lang et al. 1999; Stoffel et al. 2005; Stoffel 2006; Perret et al. 2006). Rockfalls are downslope movements of rocks and boulders which move largely by bouncing. These characteristics cause rockfalls to leave only fragmentary and scattered evidence on the ground surface but also in trees. As a consequence, it is more difficult to obtain complete time series of events for rockfalls than for other types of slope movements.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the two anonymous reviewers as well as Markus Stoffel and David R. Butler for helpful comments and suggestions that improved the manuscript. This research work has received financial support from the Safeland project funded by the European Commission and from the Big Risk project funded by the Spanish Research Council.
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Moya, J., Corominas, J., Arcas, J.P. (2010). Assessment of the Rockfall Frequency for Hazard Analysis at Solà d’Andorra (Eastern Pyrenees). 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_15
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