A segment of a giant sequoia tree was moved on Friday from the Arizona State Museum South building to the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring building, which is currently under construction. The ring is ...

And the tree ring building is round, to architecturally represent a tree. It felt like a perfect merging of architecture, shape, sound, data, wood material and science.

The sequoia section arrived at the UA in 1931 for study by astronomer A.E. Douglass, who later founded the world's first tree-ring research laboratory underneath the Arizona Stadium.

The oldest rings are those closest to the center of the tree. However, ancient giant sequoias can have trunks that are 30 feet in diameter - far too big to be sampled using even the longest coring ...

In September, the base of General Sherman, the largest tree in the world by volume at 275 feet tall and over 36 feet wide, and others at Sequoia National Park's Giant Forest were wrapped in ...

Tree Ring Science Look at this photo of a section of rings from a giant sequoia tree trunk and click on the area you think might represent a very wet season.

Giant Sequoia is the world's largest tree in terms of total volume. They grow to an average height of 50-85 m (150-280 ft) and 5-7 m (16-23 ft) in diameter. Record trees have been reported to be ...

The Sentinel tree, center, a giant sequoia tree, stands at 2,200 years old and 257 feet high, on August 22, 2022, in Sequoia National Park, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) ...