Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of climate changes and past events by comparing the successive annual growth rings of trees or old timber.
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- noun biology, archaeology The
science that uses thespacing between theannual growth rings oftrees todate theirexact year offormation .
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Examples
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The use of tree rings to measure past temperature - properly known as dendrochronology - has long been problematical.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2009
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It can afford geophysics on every dig, and other techniques such as dendrochronology as required.
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It can afford geophysics on every dig, and other techniques such as dendrochronology as required.
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[Link] I don't know about this "dendrochronology" stuff (sounds to me like some sort of pagan tree-worship), but I do know that the Balch House (pictured below in a very, very old photograph) looks very, very old to me.
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For more on the fascinating subject of tree-ring dating, called dendrochronology, see "If a Tree Falls ...
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Remember -- the accuracy of these figures, combined with temperature proxies such as dendrochronology (tree ring growth analysis) is crucial as they are used to plot past temperature / CO2 correlations.
American Thinker 2009
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Dr. Arthur V. Chadwick, PhD, Geologist, dendrochronology (analyzing tree rings to determine past climate) lecturing, Southwestern Adventist University, Keene, Texas, U.S.A.
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The scientists in question chose to ignore dendrochronology data that disagreed with their other findings.
Palin calls for Obama to boycott climate change conference 2009
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"We're going to send timber samples to a laboratory to do dendrochronology that will help us to get a sense of when the boat was constructed," McDonald said.
Old ship hull unearthed at World Trade Center site in New York City 2010
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"We're going to send timber samples to a laboratory to do dendrochronology that will help us to get a sense of when the boat was constructed," said McDonald.
18th Century Ship Found At World Trade Center Site (VIDEO) 2010
trivet commented on the word dendrochronology
The study of tree rings, both to find a tree's age and to study past events and climate change.
March 6, 2007