Fusa Miyake at Nagoya University, Japan, and his colleagues examined the carbon - 14 content of two
Japanese cedar trees and were surprised to find that there was a 1.2 per cent increase in the amount of the isotope between AD 774 and 775.
Not exact matches
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Japanese researchers finding unusually high levels of carbon - 14 in
cedar tree rings laid down between AD 774...
Although the program included a large number of species across China as a whole, they found that the majority of individual forests were planted with only one
tree species, such as bamboo, eucalyptus or
Japanese cedar.
Outside our windows the
Japanese horse - chestnuts, Japaneses maples and birch
trees were burning brightly with vivid red and yellow colors, causing the evergreen red pines and
Japanese cedars to emerge amongst their withering neighbors.
In the early 1990s,
Japanese scientists Hiroyuki Kitagawa and Eiji Matsumoto extracted eleven
tree ring cores from
cedars on the South Pacific Japan island of Yakushima.