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An ancient Bristlecone Pine grows atop the late Precambrian Reed Dolomite (some 550 million years old, from Earth's oldest geologic time subdivision--the Precambrian) in California's White Mountains, north of the Westgard Pass archaeocyathid-trilobite-echinoderm paleontologic localities. The Bristlecone Pine is the oldest continuously living, non-cloning thing on earth--a few have been accurately calculated at over 4,000 years old. Image processed through photoshop from a photograph taken and originally uploaded to Google Earth by an individual named Sonny Thornborrow.

Bristlecone Pines growing atop the late Precambrian Reed Dolomite (some 550 million years old--from Earth's oldest geologic time subdivision--the Precambrian) along Schulman Grove trail at over 10,000 feet in California's White Mountains, north of the Westgard Pass archaeocyathid-trilobite-echinoderm paleontologic localities. The Bristlecone Pine is the oldest continuously living, non-cloning thing on earth--a few have been accurately calculated at over 4,000 years old. Sierra Nevada skyline of over 12,000 feet elevation at middle right of image. This is a still picture I processed through photoshop, taken from a video interview with US National Forest Ranger Dave Hardin by Lisa Kern, uploaded to YouTube on July 8, 2014.

A view westward to the Sierra Nevada along California State Route 168, several miles east of Big Pine. Here, SR 168 cuts through a narrows in the metamorphosed mudstones, shales, sandstones, and quartzites of the early Cambrian Andrews Mountain Member of the Campito Formation (roughly 526 to 522 million years old); quartzitic shales in the youngest phases of deposition yield the oldest trilobites recognized from the White-Inyo Mountains Precambrian-Cambrian geologic complex. Note bicycle rider along pavement for scale. Image processed through photoshop from a photograph taken and originally uploaded to Google Earth by an individual who goes by the cyber-moniker "Delphigrup."

A view westward to Owens Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada front from north of Cedar Flat (which lies just west of Westgard Pass along California State Route 168) in the White Mountains. An image processed through photoshop from a photograph taken and originally uploaded to Google Earth by an individual named Jonathan Berman.

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