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Over geologic time, meteorite hits on the lunar landscape have stirred up the fluffy regolith, with He-3 being distributed down to several meters in depth.
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Five million years is an eyeblink in geologic time.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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Leonard David, Space.com, 30 Sep. 2025
Five million years is an eyeblink in geologic time.
—Peter Brannen, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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.
—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
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“Geologic time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geologic%20time. Accessed 29 Oct. 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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