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Stumps of trees at the Neskowin Ghost Forest. The Neskowin Ghost Forest is the remnants of a Sitka spruce forest on the Oregon Coast of the United States. The stumps were likely created when an earthquake of the Cascadia subduction zone abruptly lowered the trees, that were then covered by mud from landslides or debris from a tsunami. [1]
Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
Fossilised lycopsid stumps and stigmarian systems at the Fossil Grove in 1977 Garden surrounding the Fossil House in 2007. The Fossil Grove is a group of plant fossils located within Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland.
The trees, 8 to 10 feet (2.4 to 3.0 m) in circumference, have been carbon dated from 3,400 to 3,800 years old, and growth rings indicate they lived for more than 100 years. [2] While the forest may have been vast, as of the 1978 sighting only 56 stumps remained.
Unusual trees found fossilized in Canada were buried alive 350 million years ago. Scientists say the discovery opens a new window into the history of life on Earth. Rare ancient tree discovery has ...
Save the Redwoods League hopes to raise $6.5 million to buy and preserve 394 acres in Sonoma County, including an ancient redwood called the Clar Tree.
The stump (lower left) and some remains of the Prometheus tree (center), in the Wheeler Bristlecone Pine Grove at Great Basin National Park near Baker, Nevada. Prometheus (recorded as WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States.
“Ancient trees in towns and cities are vital for the health of nature, people and planet,” Naomi Tilley, lead campaigner at the Woodland Trust, said in a press release. “They give thousands ...