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Dendrochronology
First Test
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Geology
Graduate
09/28/2009

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Leonardo da Vinci
Definition

-Noted the relationship between climate and tree growth

-wrote Trattato della Pittura mentioning tree rings

 

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Michel de Montaigne
Definition

Italy 1581

-The idea of counting tree rings to attain tree age was related to Montigne by an unnamed carpenter

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Duhamel and George Louis Leclecr de Bluffon
Definition

France 1737

-Counted rings to determine the date of a conspicuous frost ring

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Carl Linnaeus
Definition

Sweden 1707-1778

-Counted rings to determine age of trees

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A.C. Twinning 
Definition

Conneticut 1827

-Used crossdating and notes the common signal across a site

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Theodor Hartig
Definition

Germany 1837

-Set up the ecological basis for dendrochronology in Germany

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Charles Babbage
Definition

England 1838

-Noted the concepts of competition, compliancy, replication, reaction wood in trees, parent trees, climate reconstruction, and specific tree-ring patterns from storms and floods

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