Please forgive me if this has already been discussed but I didn't read all the posts,
Himalaya-Karakoram-Tibet region among the international geophysical community.
The Himalaya and Tibet region is a mountain-plateau system that was formed when the Indian and Asian continents collided during Cenozoic time. It is a "natural laboratory" for scientists studying the geophysical and geological processes involved in collisional tectonics as well as the effects of high mountains and mountain-building processes on climate and the environment.
http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/EOSsokhabi.html
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Leaf morphotyping
we don’t have a very clear picture of the timing of the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau.
A recent research project, led by geologists from Britain’s Open University, provides some additional data that helps to establish the timing of uplift of part of the plateau. Spicer et al., (2003) have studied Middle Miocene (ca. 15 m.y.) leaves from volcanic ash-rich lake sediments in the Namling region of southern Tibet. The fossiliferous rocks are now situated at 4300 to 4600 m elevation. By careful description of a wide range of leaf morphological features, and comparison with existing data sets, they have determined that the leaves grew in a setting with a mean annual temperature of around 6.8 C. Based on comparisons with Miocene climate models, and with other leaf studies on similar-aged rocks formed at close to sea level in Japan, the authors conclude that the Namling leaves grew at an elevation of close to 4600 m.
Spicer et al. propose that the Namling region, along with most of southern Tibet, has been at an elevation of around 5000 m since at least the Middle Miocene; however they are careful to point out that some parts of the existing plateau may have been elevated earlier, and some parts later.
The Taman Negara is a grandmother to the rest of the world’s rainforests. During the Ice Ages, when immense glaciers covered much of the Earth, Malaysia was blessed with a location far enough away from the ice that its forest started to develop 130 million years ago - far earlier than forests of Africa and Latin America.
The Tama Negara’s age explains why it is considered to be one of the richest natural environments on earth with 10,000 species of plants, 350 species of birds, 100 types of snakes, 1,000 varieties of butterflies, perhaps 150,000 kinds of insects and 140 types of animals - including bears, elephants, leopards, tapirs, tigers, deer, wild cattle, pigs, rhinoceros, and numerous species of lizards. Within its confines is Gunung Tahan, the highest mountain in west Malaysia.
The Taman Negara rain forest in Malaysia is said to be the world's oldest rain forest. Untouched by ice age glaciers,
the rain forest has stayed essentially the same for the last 130 million years.
Within its confines is Gunung Tahan, the highest mountain in west Malaysia. This case study examines the impact of tourism on the Taman Negara rain forest and its ancestral inhabitants.
Earth's oldest living inhabitant "Methuselah" at 4,767 years, has lived more than a millennium longer than any other tree.
[URL=http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html]http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
Bristlecone pine groves are found at elevations up to 11,000 feet (3352m) in six states, in both national forests and unappropriated public lands. Public interest had to be heightened to control the depredations, and had become urgent.
On dry windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western United States grow earth's oldest living inhabitants, the bristlecones (Pinus longaeva, Pinus aristata).
Many of the trees living today were seedlings when the pyramids were being constructed, mature in the time of Christ, and ancient patriarchs today. Bristlecones occur in only six western states, but of these the oldest are found at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California. http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
Bristlecone pine groves are found at elevations up to 11,000 feet (3352m) in six states, in both national forests and unappropriated public lands. Public interest had to be heightened to control the depredations, and had become urgent.
On dry windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western United States grow earth's oldest living inhabitants, the bristlecones (Pinus longaeva, Pinus aristata).
Many of the trees living today were seedlings when the pyramids were being constructed, mature in the time of Christ, and ancient patriarchs today. Bristlecones occur in only six western states, but of these the oldest are found at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California.
[]http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
Bristlecone pine groves are found at elevations up to 11,000 feet (3352m) in six states, in both national forests and unappropriated public lands. Public interest had to be heightened to control the depredations, and had become urgent.
On dry windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western United States grow earth's oldest living inhabitants, the bristlecones (Pinus longaeva, Pinus aristata).
Many of the trees living today were seedlings when the pyramids were being constructed, mature in the time of Christ, and ancient patriarchs today. Bristlecones occur in only six western states, but of these the oldest are found at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California. http://www.sonic.net/bristlecone/intro.html
Bristlecone pine groves are found at elevations up to 11,000 feet (3352m) in six states, in both national forests and unappropriated public lands. Public interest had to be heightened to control the depredations, and had become urgent.
On dry windswept mountaintops of the Great Basin in the western United States grow earth's oldest living inhabitants, the bristlecones (Pinus longaeva, Pinus aristata).
Many of the trees living today were seedlings when the pyramids were being constructed, mature in the time of Christ, and ancient patriarchs today. Bristlecones occur in only six western states, but of these the oldest are found at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in the White Mountains of California.
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