geologic
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“Glaciers are leaving geologic time and are vanishing in the span of a human lifetime, which is unprecedented,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
"At the Japan Trench, the geologic layering basically predetermines where the fault will form," said study co-author Patrick Fulton, an associate professor in Cornell University's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Beneath it lies the asthenosphere, a hotter and more ductile layer that slowly flows over geologic time.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
"The vast number of fossil whale falls documented, including a new species of beaked whale, is truly amazing and is of major importance to understanding whale evolution and whale distributions over geologic time," he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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Earth Science - Middle School
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