We have a natural fascination with time—how landscapes have been carved over millennia, how our bodies grow and sag with age, ...
Assessing the age of a living tree is straightforward ... like Methuselah are more challenging to count, because the trunks are so distorted that new rings may form at right angles to ones formed ...
Dendrochronology – the art of tree-ring counting – allows us to precisely date trees. Based on the rings in its trunk, a bristlecone pine in eastern California known as Methuselah is said to ...
Dendrochronology – the art of tree-ring counting – allows us to precisely date trees. Based on the rings in its trunk, a bristlecone pine in eastern California known as Methuselah is said to be the ...