dendrochronology
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They will use dendrochronology, also known as tree ring dating, where the rings in the wood are counted to establish the age of a tree.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2024
That practice has spawned an entire subfield of scientific inquiry known as dendrochronology.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2024
Fortunately, the field of dendrochronology can come to the rescue.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
In the hopes of pinning down the age of the Americas’ only confirmed Viking settlement, Dee and his colleagues turned to the unlikely marriage of dendrochronology — the study of tree rings — and astrophysics.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2021
The outermost wood of eight trees was dated using dendrochronology, and of these, seven died during the year 1699, suggesting that the land was inundated by water at that time.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
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