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Resumen de Volcanoes, ice-cores and tree-rings, one story or two?

M. G. L. Baillie

  • Good archaeology relies on ever more precise dates - obtainable, notably, from ice-cores and dendrochronology. These each provide year-by-year sequences, but they must be anchored at some point to real historical time, by a documented volcanic eruption, for example. But what if the dating methods don't agree? Here the author throws down the gauntlet to the ice-core researchers - their assigned dates are several years too old, probably due to the spurious addition of "uncertain" layers. Leave these out and the two methods correlate exactly...


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