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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.
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Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
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
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Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for geologic time
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“Geologic time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geologic%20time. Accessed 28 Jun. 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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