You Find an Old Tree Stump in a Forest and Would

Multiple Choice

You find an old tree stump in a forest and would like to use it for tree-ring analysis,but you don't know when the tree was cut down.The best way to establish dates for the analysis is to:

A) compare patterns in the tree rings to ring chronologies sampled from nearby trees on known dates.
B) submit the tree stump to carbon-14 dating analysis.
C) estimate the age of the tree stump based on the level of decay it has experienced.
D) assign small rings to years of known droughts.