File:Ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva (33174404341).jpg
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ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, California, Patriarch Grove, White Mountains, Fishlake Valley drainage, elevation 3469 m (11380 ft). Substrate is carbonate (dolomite). This species is found only at high elevations of dry, isolated, sky-island mountain ranges in the Great Basin of western North America, usually with a preference for nutrient-poor carbonate soils and outcrops, like at this location. Besides reducing competition and available fuel for fires, these severe conditions force very slow growth rates that result in dense, resinous, disease-resistant and highly durable wood. Currently the oldest living individuals are known from here in the White Mountains of eastern California, where the oldest was reported to be 5062 years old as of 2012. Over this much time, roots become exposed by slow natural erosion, even in this relatively dry cold desert environment, and many branches die, resulting in the picturesque forms of many older trees. Even after death, standing and fallen wood lasts for thousands of years more, and has helped to reconstruct an unbroken tree ring record of climatic variation going back over 9,000 years. This is long enough that the wood of ancient bristlecone pines has been used to help calibrate the Carbon-14 dating process. Image from Kodachrome-64 color transparency film exposed with an Olympus OM-4T and Tamron 28-70mm zoom-macro lens. Scanned at 4000 dpi with a Nikon Coolscan 5000, and restored using Corel Paintshop Pro X4. |
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Source | ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva |
Author | Jim Morefield from Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 37° 31′ 36.23″ N, 118° 11′ 41.53″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 37.526730; -118.194870 |
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Image title | ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, California, Patriarch Grove, White Mountains, Fishlake Valley drainage, elevation 3469 m (11380 ft). |
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Camera manufacturer | NIKON |
Camera model | Nikon SUPER COOLSCAN 5000 ED |
Author | Camera owner, James D. Morefield; Photographer, James D. Morefield; Image creator, James D. Morefield |
User comments | ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, California, Patriarch Grove, White Mountains, Fishlake Valley drainage, elevation 3469 m (11380 ft). |
Latitude | 37° 31′ 36.23″ N |
Longitude | 118° 11′ 41.53″ W |
Altitude | 3,468.624 meters above sea level |
Headline | ancient bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, California, Patriarch Grove, White Mountains, Fishlake Valley drainage, elevation 3469 m (11380 ft). |
City shown | Bishop |
Width | 3,570 px |
Height | 4,760 px |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 4,000 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 4,000 dpi |
Software used | RoboGEO v6.3.2 |
File change date and time | 20:49, 30 December 2013 |
Exif version | 2.21 |
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Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
GPS time (atomic clock) | 04:49 |
Reference for direction of image | True direction |
Direction of image | 112.5 |
Geodetic survey data used | WGS 1984 |
GPS date | 31 December 2013 |
GPS tag version | 0.0.3.2 |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Image width | 3,570 px |
Image height | 3,660 px |
Y and C positioning | Centered |
IIM version | 4 |
Province or state shown | California |
Country shown | United States |