Dendrochronology: (dendron = tree, chronos = time, logos = word
= the science of): The science that uses tree rings dated to their
exact year of formation to analyze temporal and spatial patterns
of processes in the physical and cultural sciences. Henri
D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate
Tree-Ring Web Pages
The
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Science, Department of Geography,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
Tree-Ring Services,
Orpington, England
Taylor, Jonathan, Dendrochronology
in Dating Timber Framed Buildings and Structures, The Building
Conservation Directory, 2002
'Dendrochronology: Guidelines on producing and interpreting dendrochronological
dates' is available from English Heritage Publications.
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer's Ultimate
Tree-Ring Web Pages including Tree-Ring
Photos.
>> Here are the photo captions for potential use with the
article
>> for the Preserve Rhode Island Newsletter that follows
immediately in a
>> separate e-mail. since it did not work to send all the
photos in one
>> attachment I will try sending them separately.
>>
>> 1. (DSC00019) Michael Burrey taking a V cut from an oak
plank in the
>> Walker House.
>>
>> 2. (DSC00021) Daniel Miles of the Oxford Dendrochronology
Laboratory
>> extracting a core sample from a beam in the Walker House.
>>
>> 3. (DSC00023) Michael Burrey taking a core sample from
the parlor
>> summer beam in the Walker House.
>>
>> 4. (DSC00024) Same caption as above, #3.
>>
>> 5. (DSC00026) Daniel Miles taking a core sample from
a beam in the
>> Walker House.
>>
>> 6. (whp1130) Close up of tree-ring samples taken from
the Walker House.
>>
