Quotes About Geological

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.

Knowledge extends in promontories and bays; or to put it vertically rather than horizontally, the strata from remote to recent never lie so unbroken that we cannot find some line of unconformity where the imagination must make a leap. There are so many horizons, geological and human, where the evidence is missing or incomplete.

Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras. Seen in either geological or biological terms, we don't warrant attention as individuals. One

Dutton describes a process of westernization of the perceptions that has to happen before the West is beautiful to us. You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

In the vastness of astronomical space and geological time that which seems impossible in the middle world might turn out to be inevitable.

The exact kill mechanisms are still being worked out, but the chronology has now convincingly implicated the volcanic culprit. At just the precise geological moment when most species suddenly dropped dead, a hot plume rising from the mantle caused enormous floods of volcanic magma to pour forth from the Siberian ground, warming Earth, acidifying the oceans, and creating a host of other extreme environmental changes. Most of life just couldn't cope. Whether

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

to estimating gas volume based on geological models. Major discoveries—the Panhandle Field in 1918 in North Texas, the Hugoton Field in 1922 around the conjunction of Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas—eased early concerns about premature depletion. Panhandle and Hugoton together accounted for about 16 percent of total twentieth-century US natural-gas reserves, some 117 trillion cubic feet.

A sacred myth keeps a people healthy, happy, and whole—even inside their pain. They give deep meaning, and pull us into "deep time" (which encompasses all time, past and future, geological and cosmological, and not just our little time or culture).

What was boring was somehow more elegant, more perfect, for it was incontrovertible. The boring was everything that certainly was. The boring was everything that had stood the test of time. The boring was that set of truths that were so long fixed that erosion had begun to sand them down. The boring was geological; the boring was universal. The boring, therefore, was preferable.

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.

The simple truth is, human beings have become a geological force on the planet, with the power to reshape the boundaries of the world in ways we didn't intend and don't entirely understand.

Divine Time, Geological Time, Human Time, Moss Time.

The most exciting thing that we have found with Cassini is the geological activity, the geysering activity at the south pole of Enceladus.

It was no accident that some of the first bureaucracies took shape in the West: the National Forest Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (which gradually took modern form as the older Indian Service sank beneath its long heritage of fraud and corruption), and the U.S. Geological Service. Mythologized as the heatland of individualism, the West became the kindergarten of the modern American state.

should not change geological features appreciably and placement of cities is largely controlled by geography.

The current rate of extinctions compared to the geological norm is now several thousandfold faster, making this the sixth great mass extinction event in Earth's history, and thus the start of the Anthropocene in its clearest demarcation, which is to say, we are in a biosphere catastrophe that will be obvious in the fossil record for as long as the Earth lasts.

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

considered earthquakes and decided they were the result of air trapped inside the earth that had sought a way out, a form of geological flatulence:

diluvian adj. another term for DILUVIAL.