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Furthermore, our findings support the idea that bioluminescence has been a critical form of communication through geologic time for many types of animals, particularly in the deep sea.
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Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
One explanation is that, on a geologic time scale, most of the severe logging and mining impacts were temporary, said John Maerz, a salamander expert at the University of Georgia.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
Those spikes commemorate new geologic time periods across the Earth.
—Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
The vote brought an end to a debate about whether to declare that our species had transformed the natural world so thoroughly since the 1950s as to have sent the planet into a new epoch of geologic time.
—Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
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Discover Magazine, 19 June 2024
One explanation is that, on a geologic time scale, most of the severe logging and mining impacts were temporary, said John Maerz, a salamander expert at the University of Georgia.
—Benji Jones, Vox, 18 June 2024
Those spikes commemorate new geologic time periods across the Earth.
—Seth Borenstein, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2023
The vote brought an end to a debate about whether to declare that our species had transformed the natural world so thoroughly since the 1950s as to have sent the planet into a new epoch of geologic time.
—Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Geologic time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geologic%20time. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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geologic time
noun
: the long period of time marked by events in the earth's geological history
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