Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Tree Rings: Chronometric Applications

GEOS 595g / WSM 595g Graduate Colloquium, Fall Semester 1995

Day of week:

(to be decided)

Time:

(to be decided)

Location:

(to be decided)

Credits:

3

Call number:

• 08173 (GEOS)
• 19937 (WSM)

Instructors:

• Jeffrey S. Dean (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research)
• Steven W. Leavitt (Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research)

Organizational Meeting:

Tuesday, August 29, 1995, 9:30am, in the classroom (Room 104G) West Stadium (Building #58).

The class will be driven by student interest, and will include the following topics:

• time and space
• clocks and calendars
• time scales
• human perceptions of time
• relative and absolute time
• tree ring dates
• error/ring counting vs. dendrochronology
• chronology building
• absolute vs. floating chronologies
• calibration of time scales
• other dating methods
• conflicts of dendrochronology with other dates
• case studies
• student presentations.

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