: the long period of time occupied by the earth's geologic history
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Conditions on Earth shift over geologic time, and those forces inevitably lead to some dead ends on the tree of life.—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 29 May 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 Image The paintings can set one adrift to wander in the breadth of geologic time — unmoored from the present.—Zoë Hopkins, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for geologic time
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