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Live Through This: Surviving the Pleistocene in Southern California

  • Rachel Sussman (author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 159–162)

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TitleLive Through This
SubtitleSurviving the Pleistocene in Southern California
ContributorRachel Sussman (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.26
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightSussman, Rachel
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-04
Long abstractThe Oldest Living Things in the World are continuously living organisms 2,000 years old and older. Starting at “year zero” and looking back from there, they help reframe our personal timescale in a shift towards the long term well beyond a single human lifetime. There are a number of characteristics that many of these ancient organisms have in common, such as slow growth rates and the ability to thrive in adverse conditions. Likewise, there are geographic concentrations of these multi-millennials in the Mediterranean and Australia (and it should be noted that there are many parts of the world that have not enjoyed the same dedicated scientific attentions), but one of the largest known geographical concentrations of ancient life anywhere on the planet happens to be in Southern California. If you ask someone what the oldest trees in United States are, the answer is often the Red-woods. It’s an understandable mistake: they are majestic, breathtakingly large, and admirable in both girth and height. But while the Redwoods hold records for certain superlatives, their cousins to the south, the Giant Sequoias, are older. And even then, the Giant Sequoias are in fact the youngest of the five species in California alone that have surpassed the 2000-year mark.
Page rangepp. 159–162
Print length4 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)