NOUN
- the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history)
How To Use geological time In A Sentence
- Background radiation is a feature of our environment on Earth extending back throughout geological time.
- Over geological time these small streams will inevitably eat away the whole mountain side and the gorges will probably collapse in on themselves, but don't hold your breath waiting for it.
- Was Godel correct "that the formation within geological times of a human body by the laws of physics (or any other law of a similar nature) starting from a random distribution of the elementary particles and the field, is about as unlikely as the separation by chance of the atmosphere into its components? 2009 November - Telic Thoughts
- The lava from the Undara volcano travelled 164 km to create the longest lava flow from one single vent in modern geological time.
- I lost myself in something like nirvana, grew so subject to the idea of vastness in geological time that all human desires and purposes shrivelled to ridiculous unimportance. Born in Exile
- On the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment.
- Even if it took a hundred years , that is but a nano - blink in geological time.
- The foremost neptunist, Abraham Gottlob Werner, was probably the single man most responsible for the concept of the geological time scale. Vulcanists & Neptunists
- Uplifted in geological time and repeatedly glaciated, it is a large relatively flat landscape pitted with thousands of lake and tarns.
- This is followed by a brief discussion of the methods for division of the stratigraphic record and geological time, with reviews of litho- and biostratigraphy, radiometric dating, magneto- and chemo-stratigraphy.
