There were, no doubt, crevices and hillsides with shallow soil deposits 4. Sequoias grow mostly on granite-based residual and alluvial soil, on metamorphosed basalt, on soil derived from schistose rock 5. As the Noahic flood receded, it would have sown seeds just as happened in the 1880s 5. The Kaweah River area and along the tributary of Rattlesnake Creek show flood dispersals 6. Occurred about 2000 B.C. 6.
Many authorities believe that some bristlecone pines are somewhat older than the oldest sequoias.
Asa Gray, Longeuity of Trees , quoted in Rodney Sydes Ellsworth, The Giant Sequoia, pp. American Journal of Science, 2nd series, vol. Ellsworth, p. 16. Ellsworth, p. 21. Hartesveldt, p. 75.