The struggle to apprehend the scale of the environmental disaster zone that is the present earth, to make sense of it in the equally vast
geological timescale that constitutes the earth's history, is a frequent refrain in Anthropocene discourse.
It dates back 50 million years when the area would have been subtropical - a great illustration of climate change over a
geological timescale.
There are numerous activities around the natural material including decorating a piece of slate, creating a slate frame, colouring a
geological timescale or making perfect patterns in the foundry sandpit.
The age of the Chauvet cave paintings is incredible but on a
geological timescale, the paint is barely even dry.
The age of the Chauvet cave paintings is incredible but on a
geological timescale, the paint is The age of the Chauvet cave paintings is incredible but on a
geological timescale, the paint is barely even dry.
The bottom line for me in this global warming nonsense is that on a
geological timescale what we should be worrying about is things getting colder.
Also included are a glossary of terms and a diagram of the
geological timescale, which are useful for the general reader.
Chronicling Childs' jaunts from Greenland to Mexico to a forbidding island in the middle of the Bering Sea, this thoroughly enjoyable book is a fascinating travelog of an excitable, seething and perilous planet where catastrophes are frequent, at least when measured on a
geological timescale.--Sid Perkins Pantheon Books, 2012, 343 p., $27.95
The method hasn't taken off like I imagined it would, but in the often
geological timescale that ATMs operate within, it's still early.
Also included are a reading list and a
geological timescale. Illustrated in b&w.