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this volume), they are eminently susceptible to mechanistic understanding (Vaganov
et al. Chapter 3 , this volume).
There is a certain irony in the use of tree rings as records of past climate, with
all its complexities and subtleties, in that it rests on a very simple observation for
which only an increment corer, sandpaper, and a low-power dissecting microscope
are needed. It is possible to date tree rings when common year-to-year patterns of
ring variation can be seen (quite literally) to be shared by many trees of a species
at one place, and between trees in similar places within a region. So far as a cause
for these common patterns is concerned, the prime suspect is climate variability. So,
in turn, where tree-ring samples 'cross-date' (share massively replicated patterns of
variability), a prima facie case for their containing a climate signal has been made.
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