We should all live in central or southwest Queensland in Australia, which is geologically stable. Or Kansas or Nebraska, because it's relatively geologically stable. I am sure there is no emergency plan for Topeka.
The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.
The geologic cycle is a bunch of balarky.
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of...
In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.
From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
Earth processes that seem trivially slow in human time can accomplish stunning work in geologic time. Let the Colorado River erode its bed by 1/100th of an inch each year (about the thickness of one of your fingernails.) Multiply it by six million ye...
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
Civilization exists by geologic consent, subject to change without notice.
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.
The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.
You know what turns dirt into diamonds?" "Pressure. Weight. Heat..." "The geological equivalent of torture.
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.
The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
