A SIMPLE CROSSDATING PROGRAM FOR TREE -RING RESEARCH

A crossdating program for tree-ring research has been written to compare ring patterns of individual trees and composites. The program written in FORTRAN calculates the t value for correlation at every point of overlap of the two chronologies. The program is small enough to be used on a routine basis with a large number of trees. As the chronologies must be free from errors, the program is more suited to the study of oaks than coniferous trees.