Comments on: Book review – Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:38:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – The Story of Earth’s Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-95118Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:42:54 +0000/?p=9760#comment-95118[…] An important goal for Prothero is to explain how we know what we know so that readers understand how the climate works and why it changes. As such, much attention is given to the numerous lines of evidence on which palaeoclimatology draws. The fossils that show Greenland was once carpeted by lush forests while Antarctica was the stomping ground of dinosaurs. The stratigraphical evidence that tells stories of past ice ages by way of dropstones, erratics, and glacial till deposits. The fossil riverbeds in today’s deserts. The cyclical climate patterns revealed by repeating strata with obscure names such as cyclothems and varves. The palaeoclimatological archives contained in deep-sea sediment cores and Arctic ice cores. The numerous lines of evidence for plate tectonics. The geochemical evidence showing past changes in the composition of the atmosphere. The importance of microfossils, etc., etc. Prothero provides plenty of background material for the reader not schooled in geology and palaeontology. The only notable omission here is tree rings that are only mentioned in passing; unfortunate, as the story of dendrochronology is fascinating. […]

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]]>By: Book review – On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-91349Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:50:22 +0000/?p=9760#comment-91349[…] multiple such indirect lines of evidence (e.g. ice cores, lake sediments, microfossils, tree rings, and many others) they have reconstructed an increasingly detailed picture of Earth’s past […]

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]]>By: Billy B/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-78618Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:07:34 +0000/?p=9760#comment-78618Loved reading this thankss

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]]>By: Tree ring science and music reverberate lessons on climate change - The Arizona Republic - Blast It Pest Control Sydney/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-65674Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:41:15 +0000/?p=9760#comment-65674[…] a good piece for this project.”They started a tree book club, reading Valerie Trouet’s “Tree Story: The History of the World Written in Rings” together for inspiration. Then, to represent the trio of Arizona tree species, they assembled a […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-57621Fri, 11 Nov 2022 21:45:02 +0000/?p=9760#comment-57621In reply to bb.

The hardback version has this map on the endpapers at the beginning of the book, with a different illustration on the endpapers at the back of the book. I’m not sure if the paperback does. What version did you get from your library?

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]]>By: bb/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-57579Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:36:55 +0000/?p=9760#comment-57579My library copy has no map, just small black and white images.Was it part of the cover? I also can’t find the map online.

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]]>By: Book review – Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-40318Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:51:00 +0000/?p=9760#comment-40318[…] potential sources of ancient DNA. Finally, there are various palaeoclimatological proxies such as tree rings, ice cores, and others that we can use to reconstruct past […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-34134Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:22:33 +0000/?p=9760#comment-34134[…] people make far better use of the material they had always exploited: wood” (p. 78). In Tree Story, Trouet made a similar argument, writing that “human civilization as we know it is founded on […]

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]]>By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2020 | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-16484Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:08:15 +0000/?p=9760#comment-16484[…] This year saw the publication of two amazing books about the palaeontology of trees and it was a hard choice between Zach St. George’s The Journeys of Trees and this one. Ultimately, Valerie Trouet’s Tree Story won the day. A dendrochronological delight, this beautifully written and illustrated book reveals the utterly fascinating world of tree-ring research and how it matters to archaeology, palaeoclimatology, and environmental history.  Read more… […]

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]]>By: Book review – Volcanoes (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/05/18/book-review-tree-story-the-history-of-the-world-written-in-rings/comment-page-1/#comment-11747Wed, 05 Aug 2020 10:38:23 +0000/?p=9760#comment-11747[…] eruption intensity from them. By the detective work that uses palaeoenvironmental records such as tree rings, and the extent and thickness of deposits to reconstruct eruptions for which there is no eyewitness […]

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