: the long period of time occupied by the earth's geologic history
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Recent Examples on the WebWay back in geologic time, the Lake Wales Ridge was, for a million years, the only piece of Florida’s peninsula poking above seawater. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022 The lava flows that formed Craters of the Moon are fairly recent in geologic time, the most recent eruption just 2,000 years ago, expert believe.Fox News, 29 June 2022 Yes, make them and not only synthesize them, and analyze them outside of the cell, but also genetically modify the organisms with these ancient DNA molecules, to study the evolution of these genes in tandem with the organism over geologic time.Quanta Magazine, 1 June 2022 Water in the Bonneville basin over geologic time has risen and fallen repeatedly.The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2022 Apart from the occasional cattle ranch or sheep-herding camp, the landscape appears desolate and lonely, forgotten in the expanse of geologic time. Matt Stirn, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022 But that’s only 13,000 years, hardly the blink of an eye in geologic time. Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 29 Dec. 2021 Arbic, a co-author on the new paper, wondered whether changing day length could have affected photosynthesis over geologic time. Julia Rosen, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2021 Paleontologists have determined the fossil could be anywhere from 295 million to 305 million years old, between the Pennsylvanian and the Permian geologic time periods. Sherry Liang, CNN, 5 Nov. 2021 See More