Saturday, July 16, 2022

Oldest Tree East of the Rockies!

How did I miss this story from 2019? There is a tree in North Carolina that was hundreds of years old at the time of Christ. I tiny core has been drilled from it that records the floods and droughts of recorded history perfectly and so gives scientists a mighty trustworthy record of rainfall for the last two millennia. Click the picture to read the story from Newsweek.



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