Deep time is a term introduced and applied by John McPhee to the concept of geologic time in his book Basin and Range (1981), parts of which originally appeared in The New Yorker magazine.

Oct 31, 2016 · Deep time represents a certain displacement of the human and the divine from the story of creation. Yet in the Anthropocene, ironically we humans have become that sublime …

Aug 3, 2018 · "Deep time" refers to the time scale of geologic events, which is vastly, almost unimaginably greater than the time scale of human lives and human plans. It is one of …

Dec 21, 2024 · Deep time refers to the vast timescale of Earth’s history, spanning billions of years. Understanding deep time helps one grasp how the planet has transformed over eons, …

Mar 7, 2024 · Thinking in deep time means that when we talk about how different climate will be in 200 years, it doesn't seem like that long at all. It also drives the point home that humans and …

The concept of deep time helps us understand processes that can last billions of years. Erosion takes eons to shape landscapes. Deep time encourages us to think on a scale large enough to …

Sep 9, 2014 · The concept of “deep time” dates back to 18th-century geologist James Hutton, who proposed that Earth was a lot older than 6,000 years, as most people thought at the time.

Deep time refers to the successive realization on the part of geologists, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that the age of the Earth has to be described in terms of millions, even …

Deep time was a phrase introduced by the writer and journalist John McPhee in his book Basin and Range (1981), so in a sense it was a journalistic invention that offered a metaphor for the …

Jan 31, 2018 · The concept of deep time resulted directly from observations of nature and forms a cornerstone of the scientific description of nature. Field observations led early naturalists to …