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Card 6

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A technique that ensures each individual tree ring is assigned its exact year of formation. This is achieved by matching patterns of wide and narrow rings between cores from the same tree, and between trees from different locations.

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Card 7

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When a tree ring signature is not linked to a living tree.

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Card 8

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How long the master chronology of the Bristlecone Pine (SW USA)

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Card 9

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How long is the master chronology of the Irish oak?

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Card 10

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What method can be used to date individual rings?

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Card 11

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What can be converted to temperature or precipitation indices using transfer functions based on growth/climate relationships known from living trees

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Card 12

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What is inversely related to the strength of the "solar wind" and not constant?

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Card 13

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Dating of individual tree-rings from master chronologies allows radiocarbon "age" to be compared to what timescale?

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Card 14

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Radiocarbon dating measurements produce ages in "radiocarbon years" which must be converted to calendar ages by this process. This process is needed because the atmospheric 14C/12C ratio, which is a key element in calculating radiocarbon ages, has not bee

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