// Glossary
Deep Time
6 topics
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How Do You Perceive Time When Gazing at Strata?
The time scale of hundreds of millions or billions of years dealt with by geology. The depth of time that cannot be grasped by human senses.
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On Imagining the Earth's Movements from Stones
Vast time of Earth and universe beyond human timescale. Can be felt through stones.
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The Sensation of Holding Something Made Over Hundreds of Millions of Years
The concept of time on the scale of hundreds of millions of years of Earth's history. A scale that makes one realize human history is but an instant.
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On the Atmosphere of a Room as Mineral Specimens Accumulate
Geological time scale. The profound historical depth of Earth spanning hundreds of millions of years, impossible to fully grasp within a human lifetime. Minerals are its witnesses.
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Can You Imagine That the Stone Was Underground?
The hundreds-of-millions-of-years time scale that constitutes Earth's history. Orders of magnitude longer than human history. Stones are witnesses to this time.
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The Richness of Imagining Stones Made in Deserts or Seabeds
Geological timescale in units of millions or hundreds of millions of years. Earth's time axis incomparable to human lifetime.