tree ring
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In North America, few tree ring records can precisely calibrate such early radiocarbon dates, but a state-of-the-art probabilistic model placed the start of the occupation at between 16,560 and 15,280 years. — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, "First people in the Americas came by sea, ancient tools unearthed by Idaho river suggest," 29 Aug. 2019 Examining tree rings and scorch marks, Stephens was able to construct a record of fires dating back to the sixteen-hundreds. — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, "A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires," 19 Aug. 2019 Researchers have often attached caveats to these names over the years, noting that data based on things like tree rings shows different things in different locations. — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, "No climate event of the last 2,000 years looks like humanity’s," 25 July 2019 Dendochronology, the study of tree rings, can date wooden structures or objects. — Erin Blakemore, National Geographic, "How archaeologists determine the date of ancient sites and artifacts," 28 June 2019 Some of their analyses—which looked at tree rings, ice cores, and cave formations, among other sources—used simple correlations. — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, "Ancient global climate events rippled unevenly across the globe," 24 July 2019 The history of our planet’s climate is recorded by nature herself — written in tree rings and arctic ices, corals and deep ocean sediments. — Los Angeles Times, "Earth warmed faster in the last few decades than the previous 1,900 years, study says," 24 July 2019 Aim the device’s camera at the tree rings, and inventive flora of the future appear, gently swaying in a virtual breeze. — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian, "This Artist Imagines How Nature Evolves Following an Environmental Apocalypse," 19 July 2019 Last year, environmental scientist Samuel Munoz concluded a 500-year history of Mississippi flooding, as told through tree rings and soil samples. — Tristan Baurick, nola.com, "When a community built higher levees to protect itself, flooding worsened for neighbors: The River’s Revenge," 15 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tree ring.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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