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fromHigh Country News
5 days ago

How to find deep time in Seattle - High Country News

Downtown Seattle's building stones reveal geological history from tens of millions to over a billion years, visible in sandstone, limestone fossils, and ancient granite.
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fromHigh Country News
1 week ago

Three books explore deep time and help us look forward - High Country News

Geologic records show slow processes and global catastrophes; understanding deep time reveals Earth's history and informs present and future choices.
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1 week ago

'My history is a blip' - High Country News

Personal lives feel like brief blips against cosmic deep time, prompting greater appreciation for present relationships, places, and limited time.
fromHigh Country News
2 weeks ago

How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us - High Country News

My father was a petroleum geologist. A lot of my childhood, he was gone, away on oil rigs in the Powder River Basin and remote parts of Wyoming, living in man camps long before cellphones. We had to wait days to talk to him. When he went into the nearest town to shower, he'd find a payphone and call us. I was always breathless with news.
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fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

A Celebratory Wild Ride Through the History of Life on Earth

Earth's evolutionary history spans billions of years, featuring diverse life from Cambrian oddities and Carboniferous giants to synapsids and the rise of humans.
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