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A.D. 1064? A Pilot Study Of Archaeological Tree-Ring Samples To Search For Visible Evidence Of The Eruption Of Sunset Crater Volcano, Northern Arizona (2009)
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The tree-ring dating by Terah Smiley in 1958 of the eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano to the year A.D. 1064 was crucial to the interpretation of the archaeology, geology, and paleoecology of Wupatki and Sunset Crater Volcano National Monuments and the northern Southwest United States in general. Significantly, this was also the world's first calendrical dating of a prehistoric volcano eruption, creating a new application for tree ring data. The dating of the Sunset Crater eruption was based on...