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Positioning Device Helps Man Understand Earth's Past

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R. Winn Hardin

A network of cliff dwellings cut by prehistoric Amerindians and then abandoned without so much as a how-do-you-do confounded archaeologists at the turn of the century. But one man had an idea: Maybe climatic change had something to do with the exodus. And so dendrochronology, or the science of dating events and climatic changes by studying growth rings in trees. When machinist Alan Lane from Velmex Inc. of Bloomfield, N.Y., got a call from Paul Krusic at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, modern photonics joined the effort. Krusic needed an operator-efficient measurement system with...Read full article

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