Concept information
Preferred term
cross-dating
Definition
- Cross-dating is a technique used to take advantage of consistencies in stratigraphy between parts of a site or different sites, and objects or strata with a known relative chronology. A specialized form of cross-dating, using animal and plant fossils, is known as biostratigraphy. In dendrochronology, It is a technique that ensures each individual tree ring is assigned its exact year of formation. This is accomplished by matching patterns of wide and narrow rings between cores from the same tree, and between trees from different locations. (Adapted from: https://stsmith.faculty.anth.ucsb.edu/classes/anth3/courseware/Chronology/05_Cross_Dating.html and https://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/lorim/basic.html#:~:text=Crossdating%20is%20the%20most%20basic,between%20trees%20from%20different%20locations.)
Broader concept
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/QX8-3B0XP32H-X
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