// 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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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.
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Can We Feel the Time It Took for Stones to Form
Geological and cosmic time scales. Time that constitutes Earth's history, far exceeding human lifetime. The formation time of stones belongs to this scale.
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What Kind of Time Is Spent Gazing at Stones
Geological and cosmic time scales that transcend human time perception. The felt sense of 'hundreds of millions of years' when gazing at 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 Appeal of Mineral Collecting
Time measured on a geological scale of hundreds of millions of years. An existence that transcends human time perception.