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On the Origin of "Deep Time"
Bighorn Canyon, 2019"At any location on earth, as the rock record goes down into time and out into earlier geographies it touches upon tens of hundreds of stories, wherein the face of the earth often changed, changed utterly, and changed again, like the face of a crackling fire."
— John McPhee, Basin and Range
When I first read John McPhee’s Basin and Range in college, it cracked something
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Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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The story of Snowball Earth
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To date a dinosaur (Knowable Magazine)
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“evidence of life on the planet that dates at least as far back as those 3.5-billion-year-old filaments.”
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
“Together with colleagues at Memorial University, Myrow decided that this appearance of Treptichnus pedum was a decent marker of the beginning of the Cambrian, since up until that point it had never been found in rocks older than the Cambrian, and it sat just above rocks that were identifiably Precambrian. Myrow and his colleagues put forth a proposal for the Fortune Dump (now called Fortune Head) to be designated the Precambrian-Cambrian golden spike,”
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
“Nothing is set in stone, because our understanding of the stones keeps changing, as do the stones themselves.”
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
― Strata: Stories from Deep Time
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