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Lichenometry

In archaeology, palaeontology, and geomorphology, lichenometry is a geomorphic method of geochronologic dating that uses lichen growth to determine the age of exposed rock, based on a presumed specific rate of increase in radial size over time.: 9 Measuring the diameter of the largest lichen of a species on a rock surface can therefore be used to…

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has method · 16
Lichenometry → Despite, FALL, Fixed-area, It, Largest, LC, Lichen, LL, Several, SF, Size-frequency, The, There, This, Tom Bradwell, When
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Lichenometry → geomorphic method of geochronologic dating that uses lichen growth to determine the age of exposed rock
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Lichenometryhas methodFixed-area0.60section

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