Hyde Park Mastodon Research: Plant Macrofossils

Not only can tree rings tell scientists how old a tree was when it died or was cut down, but it also reveals alot about the weather when that tree was alive. Scientists will be looking at large pieces of wood recovered from the bottom of Lozier Pond to help piece together a tree ring chronology. It is hoped that this wood, along with other Pleistocene and Holocene sites in New York and western New England, will allow a tree ring chronology for the northeastern US to be constructed. At left, Carol Griggs works with logs from a site near Ithaca, New York, where the wood found in glacial sediments may be 14,000 years old.

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• Charcoal
• Pollen
• Ostracodes
• Taphonomy
• Beetles
• Stable Isotopes
  Sediments
  Mastodon Teeth
• Sedimentology/Stratigraphy
• Mollusks

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