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Title: Dendrochronology

Description: First Test

Total Flash Cards: 7

Created: 09/28/2009 09:27:41

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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
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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