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That’s a big deal because plate tectonics is our master story for how Earth recycles rock, drives volcanism and mountain-building, and modulates climate over geologic time.
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Like geologic time itself, the process of evolution itself is generally a very slow process with teeny tiny changes passed down over several generations.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
Just below one rocky summit, Roberto de la Cerda, one of Explora’s guides, showed us how to read the mountainsides as open ledgers of geologic time.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
This literal wrinkle in geologic time stretches nearly 100 miles across southern Utah, past incredible hikes and alluring slot canyons.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
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Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Like geologic time itself, the process of evolution itself is generally a very slow process with teeny tiny changes passed down over several generations.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
Just below one rocky summit, Roberto de la Cerda, one of Explora’s guides, showed us how to read the mountainsides as open ledgers of geologic time.
—Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
This literal wrinkle in geologic time stretches nearly 100 miles across southern Utah, past incredible hikes and alluring slot canyons.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
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“Geologic time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geologic%20time. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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geologic time
noun
: the long period of time marked by events in the earth's geological history
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