geologic time

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time
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the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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If they were preserved overgeologictime, a record of past and present life may reside in the icy crust.
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Evidence from the martian meteorites shows that these conditions were met within the martian subsurface at multiple places and over much of martiangeologictime.
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Geomorphic evidence suggests that these faults were active during recentgeologictime.
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Shoemaker advanced the idea that sudden geologic changes can arise from asteroid strikes and that asteroid strikes are common overgeologictimeperiods.
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The advent of radiometric dating changed the understanding ofgeologictime.
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Ageologictimescale is a scheme that integrates the geochronologic subdivisions ofgeologictimeand their absolute ages and durations.
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This unrestricted circulation produced mild, uniform climates that persisted throughout most ofgeologictime.
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This process occurs slowly in nature and is responsible for the deposition and accumulation of limestone overgeologictime.
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Fossils are important for estimating when various lineages developed ingeologictime.
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In other words, any geologic processes at work in the present have operated in the same ways throughoutgeologictime.
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Degraded and infilled impact craters record variations in volcanic, fluvial, and eolian activity overgeologictime.
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Other methods, such as radiometric dating, are needed to determine absolute ages ingeologictime.
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Their response ingeologictimeis to evolve cheek teeth with large crowns (hypsodonty).
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At a glimpse ingeologictime, one of the these forcing mechanisms may look to be the dominant process.
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However, preserved/lithified soils (paleosols) are an almost ubiquitous feature in terrestrial (land-based) environments throughout most ofgeologictime.
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By the early 1840s much of thegeologictimescale had been developed.
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They are the basis of magnetostratigraphy, which correlates magnetic reversals with other stratigraphies to constructgeologictimescales.
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The study of plant evolution attempts to explain how the present diversity of plants arose overgeologictime.
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Today many of these same rivers end in bays, indicating that sea level has risen in recentgeologictime.
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The growth of continental crust appears to have occurred in "spurts" of increased activity corresponding to five episodes of increased production throughgeologictime.
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