But there's much more information to be gleaned from growth rings than simply a tree's age. This information comes to us through the science of dendrochronology. Tree rings can reveal more than ...
Scientists studying pine trees and juniper shrubs in northern Scandinavia are revealing the weather of the past by looking at tree rings — which can tell us far more than just the trees’ age. ‘Blue’ ...
found in tree growth rings, according to the statement. Carbon-14 is a naturally occurring radioactive variant of carbon, it forms in the atmosphere when cosmic radiation interacts with nitrogen.
A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...
Using growth lines on bones (akin to tree rings) to determine age and telomere length as an indicator of biological aging, the study found no link between radiation exposure and age-related ...
Well, tree-ring dating, or dendrochronology, can be this precise, and even more so. Dendrochronologists showed that an ancient wooden road uncovered in southwestern England not only was built in ...