geological time in a sentence
Examples
- Plate Tectonics as seen on the contemporary Earth became dominant only during the latter part of geological times.
- Thus, Arthur Holmes'report concluded that radioactive dating was the only reliable means of pinning down geological time scales.
- Coarse grained rocks are formed very slowly, while fine grained rocks are formed quickly, on geological time scales.
- The loch is a very recent creation of geological times, forming naturally in a massive storm in 1720.
- This would mimic the way in which most of the world's native sulphur was deposited over geological time.
- Owing to uplift in the Jurassic and Cretaceous, there are no mineral layers from these geological time periods.
- The Valley of Peshawar is covered with consolidated deposits of silt, sands and gravel of recent geological times.
- Evidence of multiple gains and losses of pyrenoids over relatively short geological time spans was found in hornworts.
- Macroevolution includes changes occurring on geological time scales, in contrast to microevolution, which occurs on any time scale.
- Hence, Futterer infers, in recent geological times no large sea has occupied the central part of the Gobi.