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Dendrochronology
5, Aug 2012 - 10:33

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A pile of logs left behind.


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How old was this tree when it was cut down.


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Boreholes


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The rot has started


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Each ring is a year. The width of the ring tells about the weather that year.


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Irish tree ring chronologies have been overlapped and now go back thousands of years.



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