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Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change. Geology can also refer generally to the study of the solid features of any celestial body (such as the geology of the Moon or Mars).
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Rocks are time made manifest.
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Considering chickens alone, their fossils may be a marker for the Anthropocene. The body size and body shape of today’s “broiler chickens” are distinct from that of wild fowl of their early twentieth-century cousins. Their worldwide distribution and massive population size will probably ensure that they will be well represented in the future fossil record. Future geologists might use a “chicken signal” to indicate that the strata they are examining are close to the start of the Anthropocene.
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― How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
― How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America
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