: the long period of time occupied by the earth's geologic history
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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.—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 See All Example Sentences for geologic time
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