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Ferris Jabr@ferrisjabr.bsky.social |
For Nautilus Magazine, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me: What are the oldest surviving ecosystems on Earth?
Turns out some extant meadows, reefs, and rainforests have persisted for hundreds of thousands to *tens of millions* of years.
What can they teach us?
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD
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This is a marvelous story. I appreciate the opening in the Hoh, one of my favorite places.
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rifka the unhinged fat activist
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
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Makes me wonder about the longest-lived environments in the fossil record. How long did it take for that mud-mound reef to accumulate its stratigraphic thickness? For how many millions of years did stromatolites carpet a bay in the Proterozoic? How much time is in a layer of coal in deltaic sand?
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