I like to use a meter stick and be very intentional with my spacing to model time as a scale. I also avoid using the far right ... of the Earth that is characteristic of a particular span of geologic ...

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In these pieces, my goal is to offer new ways for people to personally relate to the immense scale of geologic time. An early project in which ... each kind of stitch is represented by a specific ...

THE present short article is a reversion to an aspect of the subject of geologic time which I had thought to be settled, and to require no further research or controversy. In my review of Mr ...

And the Anthropocene Working Group of scientists had spent over a decade studying the concept and definition of a new unit of geological time, using this label. They had proposed its start date be ...

A new study reconstructs how an ancient North American rift system was uplifted in space and time due to subsequent continent-continent collision.

The University of Wyoming Geological Museum in Laramie supports academic programs, scientific research and public education. It is overseen by the Department of Geology and Geophysics in the College ...

Scientists know quite a bit about the planet’s surface from sending robotic missions, but there are still many interesting geologic features ... Moon for months at a time to prepare for living ...

The Department of Geological Sciences offers Master of Science (MS ... advisor and an advisory committee that provides guidance throughout the student’s time in the degree program. Most incoming ...

A successor to A Geologic Time Scale 1989 (Cambridge, 1990), this volume introduces the theory and methodology behind the construction of the new time scale, before presenting the scale itself in ...