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Meaning of dendrocronología




Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

dendrocronología
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It is a way to find out the time or age of a tree, through the analysis of the rings in its trunk. It is used above all in areas where there are marked seasons. Literally it means study of the time of trees, age of the trees. It would be more appropriate to say xilocronologia.

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Dendrochronology: from the Greek dendron - ou, tree, chronos - ou, time and logos, study. It is a part of Botany that studies rings of annual growth of the trunks of the trees, thus establishing his age and weather conditions during those years. The observation of these growth rings shows a darker area which corresponds to the summer and another corresponding to the spring log clearer; in the tropics to the time of drought and rains respectively. When I was a kid always were admired these rings of the stumps of cut trees that couldn't interpret. What beautiful is nature!

  



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