Sentences with phrase «geologic history of this area»

The geologic history of this area before the Cretaceous Period (some 140 million years ago) is only partially understood.

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It was this desire to learn how mountain ranges develop that led me into the field of regional structural geology and tectonics, which examines the geologic features of an area, such as how the rocks are faulted or folded, and tries to reconstruct its history — how the mountains and valleys got to be there.

As seas rise, it won't be pretty, said Sam Purkis and Gregor Eberli, marine geologists at the University of Miami who offered to explain the area's geologic history and how it could help predict the effects of sea - level rise in the coming decades.

Nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) of sedimentary strata are found in the Capitol Reef area, representing nearly 200 million years of geologic history of the south - central part of the U.S. state of Utah.

But basically land area is granite and granite is made so over time we could have had an increase of land area: «The oldest continental crust has been determined to be about 3.8 b.y. old, and it appears that the continents grew throughout geologic history.