Sentences with phrase «of deep time»

This didn't matter when measurements of deep time were rough.

Rather, a chain reaction involving a number of biological and geological drivers kicked into gear, escalating the planet's diversity during a relatively short interval of deep time.

And so the question is set: Is humanity's touch mere makeup, or does it cut to the bone of deep time, in a pattern consistent with geology's demands?

«The idea of deep time of billions of years explains so much of the world around us.

With 130 kilometres of graded public access tracks, Arkaroola's visitors can wander through a landscape of deep time in which human intrusions are minimal, taking short two wheel drive vehicle tracks to secluded waterholes, or more challenging four wheel drive vehicle tracks across rugged mountains to spine - tingling lookouts.

Physics, chemistry, and geology don't work without the concept of deep time.

Bowring and his fellow keepers of deep time are also searching for rock beds where scientists can test how well dates derived by different methods agree.

As Curiosity climbs Aeolis Mons, it should encounter layers of sediments revealing what mission leader John Grotzinger calls «the dimension of deep time».

Like Bell, McEwen sees a planet of deep time, where it is possible to observe a moment of a billion - year process.

Looking at the mineral kingdom through the lens of deep time leads to a startling conclusion: most mineral species owe their existence to life

Physics may concern itself with the beginnings of deep time and biology turns its eye on the origin of humanity itself.

We humans have descended from organisms that adapted to living in a prokaryotic world, and we humans retain (conserved in evolutionary terms) in our Eukaraotic mitochondria the cellular machinery to power our cells that we inherited (i.e., Endosymbiosis) from the prokaryotes of deep time on earth.

With each inch representing a staggering 240,000 years, you'll cover millions of years with every stride and feel the rush of deep time travel as you stroll through the eons to gain a new perspective on the immensity of geologic time.

Readers of Banks's prose will find in these poems many aspects of his writing with which they're already familiar: a humane and materialist sensibility, an unflinching stare at the damage people can do to each other, a warm appreciation of the joy they can give to each other, a revel in language, a geologically informed gaze on land and sea, a continued meditation on what it means for us to be mortal embodied minds with a fleeting but consequent existence between abysses of deep time.

Meltzer, David J. 1994 The Discovery of Deep Time: A History of Views on the Peopling of the Americas.

As James A. Secord points out, they served an almost «utopian» combination of the interests of capitalism, science, public education, and art; what allowed them to serve anything at all was their artifice, which brought with it the implication that even the remote beasts of deep time could be exposed, recreated, and conquered by human ingenuity.

As part of Deep Time Chicago's visiting artist program with ACRE, I assembled an Anthropocene Library for the residents.

Dedicated to the intersection of art and music, the focus of the event is deeply rooted in the natural landscape as «an echo chamber in order to explore questions of deep time and peak futures.»

His most recent book, The Last Pictures (University of California Press, 2012), is a meditation on the intersections of deep time, politics, and art.

I want to start having this discussion so that those institutions can be developed in this century, and then when that development is done, then maybe we can turn to the deepest of deep times.

When we do that, when we embrace that cosmology, we see that every creature including humans is directly born out of the that deep time.

I'd be remiss in not pointing out that even though the exact language used is different, this sense of deep time and of humans and all other things in existence being a reflection of that is essentially similar to the traditional Hindu concept of the world, that of other paths rooted in Dharmic thinking, that of many indigenous belief systems, as well as the pre-Christian beliefs of Europe.

DeepMIP is dedicated to conceiving, designing, carrying out, analysing, and disseminating, an international effort to improve our understanding of Deep Time climates.

He rests his «beliefs on the IDEA of deep time» — yet another theory which is a belief yet to be proven, so he is accepting it on faith rather than proof, and this freedom of choice is exactly what he'd like to deny to others.

Some of my deepest times with the Lord have been as I dangled at the very end of my financial rope.