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Instructional Crossdating Exercises

Description

These exercises will benefit students, educators, and experiences dendrochronologists alike. They are intended as crossdating practice, and will help familiarize you with the concepts (see basics page) and techniques (see online skeleton plotting exercise) you have already read about. The only way you can truly become proficient at crossdating is to actually crossdate real wood.

Download and Print

You will need...

Instructions: general instructions for all exercises (HTML)
Crossdating Cheat Sheet: explanation of wood-marking conventions; web GIF (22KB) or PDF (40KB)
Graph Paper: printable paper: UNR site (non-LTRR)
Software: free Acrobat® Reader®

please send comments and suggestions to
Rex Adams (radams@ltrr.arizona.edu)

Exercises

Methuselah Walk Bristlecone Pine: crossdate the oldest trees in the world; exercise (PDF, 416KB)

Pine Tree House: crossdate archaeological ruins; exercise (PDF, 393KB)

Extra Materials

Wood Reference: chart for species identification of common southwestern wood samples; web GIF (20KB) or PDF (46KB)
Blank Data Sheet: PDF (32KB)

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