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Ancient trees find life online

February 14th, 02008 by Alexander Rose

 

Laura Welcher just pointed me to  this Google Earth Outreach project on the ancient Bristlcone Pine tree.  These are the same trees that live atop our Nevada Clock site.  Much of the data comes from our friends over at the Arizona Tree Ring Lab that have been studying the trees on our property.  By studying the rings on living and dead bristlecones they have been able to piece together climate data of the last 10,000 years.

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One Response to “Ancient trees find life online”

  1. ART511 - Locative Studio Spring 2008 » Google Earth and Ancient Trees Says:

    Posted on February 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

    [...] this out. pretty interesting. Its a google earth project to document Ecological Research on the Ancient [...]

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