Examples of geologic time in a Sentence
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The vote brought an end to a debate about whether to declare that our species had transformed the natural world so thoroughly since the 1950s as to have sent the planet into a new epoch of geologic time.
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Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Defining the Anthropocene as this specific chunk of geologic time would limit the usefulness of the term, Ellis says.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
The current period of geologic time is the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
After Ernest Rutherford first suggested using the decay of radioactive elements to measure geologic time, the Geologic Time Scale began to change.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
Still, to qualify for its own entry on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene would have to be defined in a very particular way, one that would meet the needs of geologists and not necessarily those of the anthropologists, artists and others who are already using the term.
—Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Ezcurra said that three pieces of information were necessary to do this: knowing where each species fits on the evolutionary tree, the geographic location of the species as indicated by fossil discoveries, and its place in geologic time.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
That meteorite started a whole new era, scientists propose humans started a new epoch which is a much smaller geologic time period.
—Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch, which is a much smaller geologic time period.
—Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Defining the Anthropocene as this specific chunk of geologic time would limit the usefulness of the term, Ellis says.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
The current period of geologic time is the Holocene epoch, which began 11,700 years ago.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
After Ernest Rutherford first suggested using the decay of radioactive elements to measure geologic time, the Geologic Time Scale began to change.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
Still, to qualify for its own entry on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene would have to be defined in a very particular way, one that would meet the needs of geologists and not necessarily those of the anthropologists, artists and others who are already using the term.
—Raymond Zhong, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024
Ezcurra said that three pieces of information were necessary to do this: knowing where each species fits on the evolutionary tree, the geographic location of the species as indicated by fossil discoveries, and its place in geologic time.
—Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 16 Aug. 2023
That meteorite started a whole new era, scientists propose humans started a new epoch which is a much smaller geologic time period.
—Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
While that meteorite started a whole new era, the working group is proposing that humans only started a new epoch, which is a much smaller geologic time period.
—Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2023
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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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