Olive tree-ring problematic dating: a comparative analysis on Santorini (Greece).
PLoS One
; 8(1): e54730, 2013.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23382949
Olive trees are a classic component of Mediterranean environments and some of them are known historically to be very old. In order to evaluate the possibility to use olive tree-rings for dendrochronology, we examined by various methods the reliability of olive tree-rings identification. Dendrochronological analyses of olive trees growing on the Aegean island Santorini (Greece) show that the determination of the number of tree-rings is impossible because of intra-annual wood density fluctuations, variability in tree-ring boundary structure, and restriction of its cambial activity to shifting sectors of the circumference, causing the tree-ring sequences along radii of the same cross section to differ.
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Assunto principal:
Olea
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article