You Find an Old Tree Stump in a Forest and Would

question 57

Multiple Choice

You find an old tree stump in a forest and would like to use it for tree- ring analysis, but you don't know when the tree was cut down. The best way to establish dates for the analysis is to:

• A) compare patterns in the tree rings to ring chronologies sampled from nearby trees on known dates.
• B) assign small rings to years of known droughts.
• C) estimate the age of the tree stump based on the level of decay it has experienced.
• D) submit the tree stump to carbon- 14 dating analysis.

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