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.
"If you took a cross section of a tree infested by Asian long-horned beetles, it would look like Swiss cheese".
In front of the couch is a coffee table made from a cross section of a tree, cut in such a way that the bark is still there, albeit heavily lacquered.
Built in the midcentury style called post and beam, the bungalow exudes a subtle retro feel, with white carpeting, a cross section of a tree trunk as a coffee table, and a gravel fireplace in the living room.
In compression woods there is more growth on the lower side of the stem where the compression wood forms; this results in an oval cross section of the tree near the ground.
A cross section of that tree was placed in a Nevada casino".
A cross section from coast redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) in Mountain Home State Forest, California, were dendrochronologically cross-dated (950 1450 years) and detected overall period between 600 and 1700 A.D. [1].
These samples were extracted from four of the seven cores, from Umm Dihaysi a, Muwaylhah b, Hulus Upper b and Jimal a. Sample locations within cores were selected according to preliminary indications of possible growth rates based on C measurements from a cross section taken from a test tree.
Sapwood is thus paler and softer than heartwood and can usually be distinguished in cross sections, as in tree stumps, although the proportions and distinctness of the two types are variable in different species.
Each depression held a disc made from a lacquered cross-section of tree branch, and each disc held a single "bite".
Reading these scrolls is difficult; computer reconstructions of the rolled scroll reveal that the blast of volcanic material so damaged its once-perfect whorls that its cross section looks like a half-melted tree-ring pattern.
