: the long period of time occupied by the earth's geologic history
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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 Readers will enjoy a tour through geologic time, discovering how plants and animals evolved.—Richard Horan, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for geologic time
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