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Deep time

Deep time is the concept of geological time that spans billions of years, far beyond the scale of human experience. It provides the temporal framework for understanding the formation and evolution of Earth, the development of life, and the slow-moving processes that shape planetary change. First developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and…

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related to Books · 73
Deep time → Ancient China, Andrew Dickson, Annals, Appleton, Archived, Ashgate Publishing Variorum, Birth, Brookfield, Cambridge, Chapter, Chapters, Chicago, Chicago Press, Christendom, Company, Deep Time Reckoning, Discovery, Earth, Earth's Antiquity, Farrar
related to Web · 48
Deep time → America, Anthony, Archived, Book, Campbell, Colebrook, Critical Issues Committee, Darwin, Darwin Correspondence Project, E-an, Fox, Geological Society, Geology, Gert, Henry Gee's In Search, Historical Geology, History, Hugh, Humanity, Hutton's
related to External links · 32
Deep time → App, Archived, BBC Future, BerkeleyDeep Time Archived, Big History, California, ChronoZoom Archived, Culture, Deep Time' Could Inspire, Deep Time' Thinking, Earth, Embracing, Evolution, Flash Player, History, Interactive Infographic Archived, Interactive Walking Experience, International Big History Association, Microsoft Research, New Ways
related to Journals · 25
Deep time → Adjudicating Deep Time, Ages, Chaos, CS1, Discovery, Edinburgh, High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository, Hutton's Unconformity, Ialenti, III, ISBN, James Hutton, John, Kubicek, Playfair, Project At Yucca Mountain, Revisiting The United States, Robert, Royal Society, Science
related to Intellectual responses · 19
Deep time → Arrow, Beyond, Fossil Record, Henry Gee's In Search, How Humanity Communicates Across, In The Science, Julian Huxley, Life, Like, Millennia, Modern, New History, Physicist Gregory Benford's Deep, Stephen Jay Gould's Time's, The, Throughout, Time, Time's Cycle, Wells
related to Origins and definition · 14
Deep time → As, Earth, Hutton, Hutton's, James Hall, James Hutton, John Playfair, June, Scandinavia, Scotland, Scottish, Scottish Enlightenment, Siccar Point, The
related to Science communication · 14
Deep time → Anthropocene, Climate Review, David, Earth's, Fossils, Koch Hall, Land, Media, Natural History, Podcasts, The, The BBC, The Smithsonian National Museum, This
related to Developments in the 19th century · 13
Deep time → Adam Sedgwick, Bank, Britain, Building, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Earth's, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton, Sedgwick, The, This, Time
related to Rethinking human time · 6
Deep time → Anthropologists, By, Matt Edgeworth, Scholar Jakko Kemper, The University, Vienna's Anthropocene Project
related to The Anthropocene · 6
Deep time → Anthropocene, Earth's, Holocene, In, Science, The

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Deep timeis aconcept of geological time that spans billions of years0.90text
John McPheeinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
the concept of deep time has influenced fields ranging from geologyinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
evolutionary biology to climate scienceinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
philosophyinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
educationinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
and environmental ethicsinstance ofFirst developed as a scientific idea in the 18th century and popularized in the 20th century by writers0.80text
Nicolas Stenoinstance ofEarly theoriesEarly geologists0.80text
Horace Bénédict de Saussure had developed ideas of geological strata forming from water through chemical processesinstance ofEarly theoriesEarly geologists0.80text
which Abraham Gottlob Werner developed into a theory known as Neptunisminstance ofEarly theoriesEarly geologists0.80text
envisaging the slow crystallisation of minerals in the ancient oceans of the Earth to form rockinstance ofEarly theoriesEarly geologists0.80text
erosioninstance ofgradual processes0.80text

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