geologic time

How To Use geologic time In A Sentence

• Because the Miocene is closer to the present day than most other periods of geologic time, it is easier to see the effects of events, and to interpret patterns.
• the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present
• Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future. Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package
• Even a Nobel Prize winner can hatch an ignoratio elenchi, as evidenced by Laughlin's essential argument: because the climate has been and will continue to be controlled on geologic time scales by natural processes, such as changes in the Earth's orbit and cometary impacts, the climate is "beyond our control" and "the climate ought not concern us too much when we are gazing into the energy future. Bill Chameides: Red Herring Alert: Planet Earth Does Not Need a Care Package
• It essentially separates early (higher scores) and later (lower scores) representatives of the species, which tended to develop evolute coiling through geologic time.
• The explanation for the strange appearance of fossas and other Madagascar animals goes back some 160 million years ago in geologic time.
• What happens and does happen over long periods of geologic time, we're still coming out of our last ice age, and as the ice melts from that, there is something called isostatic rebound I think is the technical term. NPR Topics: News
• Thanks to Oliver Zompro and Erich Tilgner, two entomologists with expertise on Phasmids and allied groups and their taxonomy and evolution, for their patient explanations and copious references; to the Phasmid Study Group for allowing me to use some of their phasmid photographs; to Reed for setting up the Geologic Time Scale page and PT crew members for comments, suggestions, and for refreshing my Latin. Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb
• That almost exclusive source is the scientific community, which is now overwhelmingly dominated by an atheistic majority. creationist views with two main schools of thought known as uniformitarianism, which is the doctrine that geologic processes have acted in the same regular manner and intensity throughout geologic time. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• It will be for readers here to decide for themselves the merits of the competing claims in this fascinating conundrum that addresses the mystery surrounding one of the greatest mammalian and avifaunal extinction events in recent geologic time, a mere 10,000-12,000 years ago, in North America. Anthropology.net