geological time scale in a sentence
Examples
- Density irregularities, thermal differences-all these fluctuations, on geological time scales contribute to the rate of mountain formation and tectonic activity.
- In 1960, using the findings of radiometric dating, he published a geological time scale estimating the age of each geological era.
- In 1841 John Phillips published the first global geological time scale based on the types of fossils found in each era.
- The present system of rivers seems to date from around five million years ago, not long ago on a geological time scale.
- :Stratified oceans and deep water anoxia / euxinia are well known occurences over geological time scales ( many millions of years ).
- The process, he said, is part of a natural cycle in which ice shelves grow and then calve icebergs over geological time scales.
- That might not sound like much, until you put it into a geological time scale of tens or hundreds of millions of years.
- Biological evolution works on a nearly geological time scale, which suggests that human nature, as a partial product of our genes, is basically constant.
- Nevertheless, at least one notable scientific work has advocated using the lunar geological time scale to subdivide the Hadean eon of Earth's geologic time scale.
- This apparent stability is not real over even quite short geological time scales, but it is real enough over the short life of an organism.