dendrochronology

dendrochronology
noun
  1. [mass noun]the science or technique of dating events, environmental change, and archaeological artefacts by using the characteristic patterns of annual growth rings in timber and tree trunks
    树木年代学
  2. Variations in climate affect the width of trees' growth rings and give rise to recognizable sequences. By matching a sequence from a tree of known date with one from an older tree overlapping in age, and combining a number of such overlaps, a master plot of tree-ring patterns has been built up covering several thousand years
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dendrochronological
adjective
dendrochronologist
noun
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