geological timescale
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"On a geological timescale, this is very rapid erosion."
From BBC • May 27, 2025
"On a geological timescale ice sheets have come and gone, but on a human timescale if we lose them we can basically consider them gone forever."
From Salon • Mar. 18, 2024
On a geological timescale, "very quickly" means in thousands to hundreds of thousands of years.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023
It warmed the planet rapidly on a geological timescale, although it was nowhere near the rapidity of what we’re doing today.
From Scientific American • Sep. 26, 2023
Finney only decided to look at the Anthropocene in detail after he began getting comments from people who thought it was now an official part of the geological timescale.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2019
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