WordNet
n. the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history) [syn: geologic time]
Usage examples of "geological time".
But this, as it seems to me, is no valid argument against what would be effected by occasional means of transport, during the long lapse of geological time, whilst an island was being upheaved and formed, and before it had become fully stocked with inhabitants.
Up close in this light, indifferent to human chronologies and subject only to the slow erosive forces of geological time, it reared above me like a frowning, terrifying crag.
The shoulder of Richmond Hill rose up behind me, a mass embedded in geological time.
As an accomplished student of geology - Victorian-style field geology, where you traipse about the landscape trying to work out what rocks lie under your feet, or halfway up the next mountain, and how they got there - Darwin was well aware of the sheer abyssal depth of geological time.
Today with much-reduced eolian erosion as a result of the greening of Arrakis, and with little in the waj of water erosion, mountains are rising rapidly (rapidly m a geological time sense).
The Nostoc scheme is an example of how human technology and science may, in periods quite short compared to geological time, rework the environment of another planet.
And so the Aborigines had made them places of totemic and religious significance, spinning Dreamtime stories from cracks and folds until the rocks became a kind of mythic cinema, frozen in geological time.
They were apparently driven to extinction at approximately the same geological time that represents the boundary between Cretaceous period ami Tertiury era on Earth, which has been called the Time of Great Dying.
A steady pitter-patter of particles moving much faster than in the fiercest gales of Earth should, over ages of geological time, work profound changes in rock faces and landforms.
Hence, what we should find is a treelike branching structure following the lines of descent from a comparatively few ancient ancestors of the major groups, radiating outward from a well-represented trunk and limb formation laid down through the bulk of geological time as new orders and classes appear, to a profusion of twigs showing the diversity reached in the most recent times.
By the standards of geological time, the lizards were now changing rapidly.
Here it had had all the geological time it needed to grow into a spare environment.
As we will see, such behavior probably extends much farther back than the monkeys, back through hundreds of millions of years of geological time.