Sentence examples for annual rings from inspiring English sources

The tree's annual rings revealed its age to be 75.

It resembles a slice of a giant old tree whose annual rings have been psychedelically colorized.

Historically, growth rings (also called growth increments) were called annual rings.

In hardwoods there is generally less eccentricity associated with tension wood, but the annual rings may be wider.

The yearly amounts of xylem visible as distinct rings in cross sections of stems are known as annual rings.

There are typically two ways we can identify the fingerprint of a volcanic eruption in the annual rings of trees.

The stars are wheeling around Polaris, and the sugar maples that frame the pasture are laying down another cellular increment in their annual rings.

The lighter-coloured sapwood is living and functions as storage tissue and, especially in the outermost sapwood, as conducting tissue; the younger annual rings make up the sapwood.

The scale is deposited in a series of annual rings, since its growth occurs rapidly in spring and summer and rarely in winter.

To accurately age a stranded dolphin, a veterinary pathologist will cut a tooth in half and count the growth layers that develop like the annual rings seen in a cross section of tree trunk.

The scientists are focusing on sites where annual layers are formed and are investigating mud sediments off the coast of Santa Barbara in California and the Ernesto cave in northern Italy, where stalactites and stalagmites accrete annual rings.