// Glossary
Geological Time
5 topics
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Can One Feel the Time It Took for a Stone to Form?
The timescale of millions and hundreds of millions of years that constitutes Earth's history. It possesses a dimension fundamentally different from the time of human life or civilization.
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Can We Feel the Time It Took for Stones to Form
Time units that constitute Earth's history. Spoken of in units of millions or billions of years. Stone formation is a typical example.
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How Do You Perceive Time When Gazing at Strata?
The time concept that deals with the entire history from Earth's formation to the present. Almost synonymous with deep time.
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What Do You Feel When You Pick Up a Stone?
The timescale of Earth's history, measured in hundreds of millions of years — the depth of time. What a stone speaks of is not human history but planetary memory.
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Why Do We Feel Attachment to Inanimate Matter
The vast timescale of Earth's history from formation to present, far beyond human perception, felt through stones.