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#001 - Great Basin, Part 1: The History | Lehman Caves & the Oldest Trees on Earth
The story of Great Basin National Park — how a remote Nevada mountain came to hold a cave, a glacier, and the oldest living things on Earth. From the tropical sea that built the rock half a billion years ago, to Lehman Caves and its 300+ rare shield formations, to the bristlecone pines that were already ancient when the pyramids were new — this is the deep history of one of America's youngest and least-visited national parks.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, traces the full arc: the Basin and Range geology that names the region, how slightly acidic water carved a cathedral out of…
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