Tree Core (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

Tree Core

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Scientists assembled a record of rainfall going back over 750 years by measuring widths of annual fokienia hodginsii rings. The rings are visible in cores taken from the tree trunks; these do not damage the tree.

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Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, Columbia University.

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