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[*] posted on 9-12-2013 at 11:08 PM


LOVE these! OMiGoSH, it's spectacular what you captured, the scenes in the tree wood, wow.



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[*] posted on 9-13-2013 at 11:45 AM


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Creosote bushes are way cool (to use today's vernacular). They are great to photograph and to hike through. The leaves are a very attractive green and the stems have a articular quality to them that I've always liked.




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Clone‎

King Clone is thought to be the oldest Creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. The ring is estimated to be 11,700 years old. It is considered one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. This single clonal colony plant of Larrea tridentata reaches up to 67 feet (20 m) in diameter, with an average diameter of 45 feet (14 m)


Geography

The King Clone ring is on restricted-access public land in the central Mojave Desert, approximately 0.6 miles north of California Route 247 on Bessemer Mine Road near the towns of Lucerne Valley and Landers. It is within the Creosote Rings Preserve of the Lucerne Valley and Johnson Valley.

Dating methodology

King Clone was identified and the 11,700 years old age documented by Frank Vasek, a professor at the University of California, Riverside. After Vasek hypothesized that the creosote ring was in fact one organism, Leonel Sternberg (then a graduate student working in Vasek's lab), was able to show that plants in a ring had some identical characteristics, but those shared characteristics differed from other plant clusters. Vasek then used two methods to determine the age of the ring. One method counted rings and measured the distance of annual growth, and the other used radiocarbon dating on chunks of wood found in the center of the ring, and measuring their distance from each other and the living bushes. Both dating methods yielded the same result.




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[*] posted on 9-13-2013 at 07:50 PM


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LOVE these! OMiGoSH, it's spectacular what you captured, the scenes in the tree wood, wow.


Thank you --- In the third one, I felt like I was seeing the whole forest reflected back at me. I am glad you saw the scenes.

Now I am really interested in learning more about Cresote.
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[*] posted on 9-19-2013 at 06:01 AM


Diana..I will never pass up another photo post by you....wow.......

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