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Sclerochronologist<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Sclerochronology<\/b>\u00a0is the study of periodic physical and chemical features in the hard tissues of animals that grow by accretion, including\u00a0invertebrates<\/a>\u00a0and coralline red algae, and the temporal context in which they formed.\u00a0It is particularly useful in the study of marine\u00a0paleoclimatology<\/a>. The term was coined in 1974\u00a0following pioneering work on nuclear test atolls by Knutson and Buddemeier and comes from the three Greek<\/a>\u00a0words\u00a0skleros<\/i>\u00a0(hard),\u00a0chronos<\/i>\u00a0(time) and\u00a0logos<\/i>\u00a0(science), which together refer to the use of the hard parts of living organisms to order events in time. It is, therefore, a form of\u00a0stratigraphy<\/a>. Sclerochronology focuses primarily upon\u00a0growth<\/a>\u00a0patterns reflecting annual, monthly, fortnightly, tidal, daily, and sub-daily (ultradian)\u00a0increments<\/a>\u00a0of time. [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “The oldest animal ever found could reveal whether a crucial ocean current will collapse,<\/em><\/a>” Sarah Kaplan, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Sclerochronologists \u2014 scientists who tell time through shells and bones \u2014 can\u2019t take credit for discovering that clams are astute record keepers. That honor goes to Aristotle, who in fourth century B.C. observed that lines on the animals\u2019 shells represented a year\u2019s worth of growth.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t until the last few decades that researchers realized they could use those lines to learn about the history of the ocean, much the way they use tree rings to understand past temperature<\/a>\u00a0and weather on land.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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