How to Use dendrochronology in a Sentence

dendrochronology

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• Dendrochronology is the study of tree rings as a way to understand past events.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
• The wood panel was examined using dendrochronology, a method to date wood down to the year that the tree was cut down, in this case in the 1640s.
  — Quartz, 22 May 2021
• So researchers turned to dendrochronology — the dating of objects by the growth rings in timber — and a chainsaw.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• The team used dendrochronology—a technique that dates wood’s age and origin based on its tree rings—to identify the woman in the portrait.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2020
• The word was modeled on dendrochronology, the dating of trees by their annual growth rings.
  — Steven N. Austad, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• The Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research is the world’s oldest dendrochronology lab, and still one of the most renowned.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2021
• Researchers used dendrochronology — dating events by growth rings in trees — to figure out the age of the waterlogged door unearthed near Lake Zurich.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
• Using dendrochronology — analyzing tree rings to date past events — the team was building a record of regional fires and droughts going back about 650 years.
  — Russ Juskalian, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
• Researchers typically calculate a tree’s age with a process known as dendrochronology, which involves counting the number of rings in the tree’s trunk.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2022
• Experts from Sorbonne University in Paris are using dendrochronology, a dating method based on tree rings found in wood, to pinpoint the boat’s exact age.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
• Then the work of interpreting the language of the wood got going in earnest, using dendrochronology, a range of scientific techniques developed in the course of a century.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• One afternoon, in the early nineteen-twenties, Douglass gave a talk about dendrochronology.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• And the scientists who study tree rings – dendrochronology, as the field is called – are finding that their work is becoming increasingly recognized as crucial in the fight against climate change.
  — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2021
• Research techniques used at the site included dendrochronology, or the study of tree ring growth to determine when logs were felled, as well as investigation of artifacts like toys, pipes and food remains.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2020
• That makes dendrochronology essential for archaeology, too, as well as the study of historic climate change.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
• Jonathan Barichivich, a scientist from Chile who specializes in dendrochronology, and his colleague Antonio Lara announced their findings last month.
  — Felicia Alvarez, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2022
• Matt Bell’s rambunctious new novel may not require reviewing so much as dendrochronology.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• Efforts to precisely date the coffin are ongoing and will involve both radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology.
  — Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
• The science — called dendrochronology — is amazingly precise.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
• Mr. Woodward sent wood samples selected from structural elements to the dendrochronology lab at Columbia University.
  — Emily S. Rueb, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
• In the intervening decades, however, scientific analytical techniques have gained traction and authority, particularly dendrochronology, the dating of wooden panels based on study of their tree rings.
  — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024