Keywords |
  • Climatology,
  • Palaeontology,
  • Botany

Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (from the Greek dendros, tree and chronos, time) is the study of the tree growth in time. This technique consists of analysing the annual growth rings of trees in order to rebuild chronologies and meteorological and climatic variations that occurred in the past.

An example of dendrochronological dating. © Stefan Kühn / Wikimédia Commons, CC by-sa 3.0 An example of dendrochronological dating. © Stefan Kühn / Wikimédia Commons, CC by-sa 3.0

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