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A 1119-year tree-ring-width chronology from western Prince William Sound, southern Alaska

David J. Barclay

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA; Departnment of Earth Sciences and Science Education, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, USA

Gregory C. Wiles

Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA

Parker E. Calkin

Department of Geology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA

Living and subfossil trees from glacier forefields are used to develop a 1119-year-long tree-ringwidth chronology. Strong cross-dating among ring-width series from sites up to 60 km apart and an analysis of sample homogeneity support combination of all samples into a single, regional composite chronology. Comparison with instrumental climate data indicates May through July temperatures of the growth year are the primary control on ring-widths. Multidecadal-length warm periods in western Prince William Sound during the past 800 years were centred on AD 1300, 1440 and possibly 1820. Multidecadal-length cool periods were centred on AD 1400, 1660 and 1870. This is the first tree-ring chronology from the Gulf of Alaska region to extend into the first millennium AD.

Key Words: Dendroclimatology • dendrochronology • tree-rings • palaeoclimate • late Holocene • Alaska

The Holocene, Vol. 9, No. 1, 79-84 (1999)
DOI: 10.1191/095968399672825976
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