How to Use tree ring in a Sentence

tree ring

noun
  • Berg found evidence of them in the record of tree rings.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Changes in weather affect the width of each year’s tree ring.
    Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Some of the tree ring experts involved in the work, on the other hand, are more convinced.
    Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Some take tree cores to get an insight into tree rings.
    Tik Root, Time, 7 Oct. 2019
  • Torrents of snow can knock over, bruise, or injure trees in ways that show up on tree rings.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 15 Mar. 2018
  • But that stick only goes back about 2,000 years in climate records based on tree rings.
    Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Murphy has studied megadroughts of the past using tree rings, and those droughts have lasted up to about 30 years.
    Ian James, azcentral, 7 June 2020
  • Then Muñoz’s team checked their work against another record: tree rings.
    Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The study’s tree ring record also provides a sobering view of what is possible in the West.
    Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • That's going to give us the outermost tree ring that was ever formed.
    CBS News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The mud laminations, called varves, look like tree rings.
    Nathaniel Wilder, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
  • And carry this imagery straight to the earth’s core, connecting your own body to the fiery, molten layers, like so many tree rings.
    Bess Matassa, Teen Vogue, 13 Oct. 2018
  • Scientists can tell a lot about climate from tree rings.
    Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The region is in the grip of a mega-drought, the worst in 1,200 years, according to researchers who have analyzed tree ring data.
    Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The climate data gleaned from the tree ring samples fits closely with the instrumental record over the past 100 years.
    David Bressan, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Much like an ice core or tree ring grows season after season, the sediment at the bottom of a blue hole builds up over time.
    J. Besl, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022
  • The layers of ice are a record of Mars’ past climate, similar to the way that tree rings record Earth’s past climate, scientists say.
    Fox News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • 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, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Like tree rings, dinosaur bones form concentric rings in their bone's cross-section.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Since the 1950s researchers have known that the concentration of radiocarbon in tree rings varies over time.
    Katherine Kornei, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2023
  • If a storm damages and dramatically slows the growth of a tree, the tree ring will be much narrower than normal.
    Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Examining the width of the tree rings in each core, for example, gives clues about when—and for how long—periods of drought occurred.
    Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 24 July 2019
  • Much like tree rings, the cones remained fairly distinct even after the animal died.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Williams said that tree ring records do provide some reason for hope — megadroughts do eventually end when the rains return.
    Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Researchers have since identified ten major carbon-14 spikes, now known as Miyake events, in tree ring chronologies.
    Kim Beil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • My landscape company was just working on my garden and finished edging all the beds and tree rings.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • In 2020 researchers used ice core and tree ring data to connect the intense eclipse to a volcanic eruption in Japan two years earlier.
    Eric MacK, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • The tree ring looks like a little amphitheater, Vandermolen said.
    Gloria Casas, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2021
  • Use twine attached to the trunk of a tree to provide a guide in order to create an even circle around the trunk — the longer the length of twine, the bigger the tree ring will be, so adjust according to your needs.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 27 Mar. 2021
  • To bolster their confidence in the finding, the team scoured the tree rings for a telltale sign that aids in dating: a spike in stellar radiation called a Miyake event.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023

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