Joel Kontinen
Usually, a tree only grows one ring a year. Sometimes a tree will form more than one growth ring in a year. Now, such “false rings,” found in trees along the U.S. Gulf Coast, have been linked to hurricanes or maybe big floods.
“Clay Tucker, a geographer at the
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and his colleagues spent much of 2020 and
this year wading and canoeing through stands of bald cypress trees across three
river basins in coastal Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida.”
“Tucker and his colleagues linked
20 instances of false rings since 1932 with big floods, as recorded by stream
gauges.” This is what Science shows.
This clearly points to the Flood of Noah’s days as accounting for the false rings.
17 DEC 2021
source::45 AM
Kornei, Katherine, 2021. ’False’ tree rings could provide a new record of long-ago hurricanes Science 16.12.
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