#deep-time — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #deep-time, aggregated by home.social.
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Geological Deep Time – new blog series available in English now!
It's about our relationship with Earth's deep time – illustrated with my own photographs from the Black Forest and the Vosges. The first 3 parts are now online.
Start here : https://www.silberspur.de/blogs/read/116
#DeepTime #BlackForest #Vosges #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Nature #EarthSciences #Science #Fotografie #Schwarzwald #Vogesen #Palynology #Science #ScienceCommunication #Geology #NaturePhotography #ScienceForEveryone #Time
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Human Legacy And The Preservation Of Knowledge
The preservation of digital information is a problem that humans have tried to combat ever since the internet’s inception. There’s the Internet Archive, IPFS (Inter Planetary File System), and other various attempts to figure out how to preserve what we do, but the very concept of preservation is itself a difficult task. How do we humans ensure that our knowledge, or at least our ways of thinking about the world, is passed on to future generations, and can that knowledge last in […]https://johnbronze.wordpress.com/2026/07/13/human-legacy-and-the-preservation-of-knowledge/
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A library in Norway holds manuscripts by living authors that no one can read until 2114. It's called the Future Library. by @daylightatheism
https://onlys.ky/future-library/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
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(Note: This project contains high-motion animation.)
65,000+ years continuous culture Always was always will be
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/time/(Also 50 years of National Aboriginal Islander Day Observance Committee - now a week July 5 - 12 2026 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-05/50-years-deadly-naidoc-week-celebrations/106872566 )
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Breathing ancient #oxygen at #MONA, where they liberate it from banded iron formations in their 'Breathe' installation.
A taste of the gas from back when it was corroding a new world into existence
https://darkmofo.net.au/program/breathe
#SciArt #GreatOxidationEvent #deeptime #geology #DarkMofo #Tasmania
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James Hutton that true son of fire who said
to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…—Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984
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#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #20thcentury #RobertBurns #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology #sonnet
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Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…James Hutton met Robert Burns in 1787. Later that year, Burns chose to visit some of the sites discussed in Hutton’s THEORY OF THE EARTH. Is there an echo of Hutton’s “deep time” – oceans evaporating, rocks melting – to be heard in Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose” (pub. 1794)?
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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/
#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #romanticism #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology
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James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern geology, was born #OTD, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the conclusion of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of science:
The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.
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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2808
#Scottish #literature #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology
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"All told, the graveyard extends 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) along the sea floor. The researchers found at least five active whale falls...also documented 476 fossilized whales, and of the 25 collected samples that could be dated, the most ancient was about 5.3 million years old. That suggests that whales have fostered this unique deep-sea ecosystem for at least that long." https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-5-million-year-old-whale-necropolis-in-the-deep-sea-2000769050 re: #DeepTime #Lagerstätten
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The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis by Bill McGuire, 2026
The Fate of the World is a 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, putting contemporary global heating in the context of geological epochs and periods to reveal what past climate change can tell us about our planet’s future.
#books
#nonfiction
#ClimateChange
#paleontology
#geology
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#workshop by #danielabrillestrada @MzBaltazarsLab
In this workshop we will take a closer look into #rocks minerals, and other geological
formations. Starting with a theoretical introduction into the history of geological taxonomies, and into concepts like #deeptime . In a practical part, we will grow #crystals, explore their properties, and write about how they defy and challenge taxonomies and binaries. -
The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnakeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay.
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The centimeter wide rock layer that records the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary that ended the rein of the dinosaurs. (It's the brown layer between the coal & light claystone layers.) It was created by the fallout of a 12km impactor that created the 250km wide Chicxulub crater offshore of the Yucatán Peninsula. The layer contains shocked quartz & an anomalous concentration of the element iridium marking an extraterrestrial impact.
(Raton, New Mexico.)
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"Deep Time Australia
is an ABC News Story Lab project that provides a glimpse into the ancient history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have occupied this land for more than 65,000 years. The stories contained in this project belong to the knowledge holders and keepers, and they have been generously shared with the ABC for this project. Without them the beautiful complexity of this project would not have been possible."Tell me a story:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/tell-me-a-story/Explore by topic:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/deeptime/topic/#IndigenousPeoples #FirstNationsPeoples #narrative #history #DeepTime #IndigenousKnowledge #DeepTime #everywhen #Australia #ABCStoryLab #DigitalStorytelling
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Es gibt Rätselfossilien, von denen ich noch nichts wusste? Was verheimlicht ihr mir noch alles?!?
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To the world, the Oak is merely fodder for the hearth or an obstacle to "renewal."
But the Oak is a survivor. While we overheat in discourse, it cools the air. It heals by connecting, refusing to be bent by the crimes committed against it.
Stop with the wisdom of the Gretas. Put aside your sociology degrees.
The Oak is the true manifesto for a complex society—Read on: https://library.profpeter.my/paper-trails/mastodon-short/true-science-of-the-oak
#Nature #Philosophy #Stoicism #DeepTime #BiologyOverIdeology #EcologicalWisdom #Society
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"Frankly, I’m surprised you’re even interviewing me. Geologists generally treat me as a nonentity. I’m an un-rock, a cipher, just an irregular surface."
Marcia Bjornerud for High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/meet-the-oldest-rock-in-the-west
#Longreads #Rocks #Geology #Science #DeepTime #History #AncientHistory #Earth #EarthScience
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🧬 Life kept upgrading itself, code rewriting code. Single cells learned to cluster, then specialize, then network. Fungi arrived early, aquatic, flagellated, flinging spores like packets through water. They hacked land via algae, spun mycelial grids under shifting continents, laid dark infrastructure for everything that followed.
Evolution doesn’t rush toward dominance. It stabilizes conditions until dominance becomes possible.
#DeepTime https://bigthink.com/life/earths-complex-life-began-with-a-fungus/
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"this problem of deep time still haunts us, because it lurks behind the challenge of grasping #climatechange — i.e. the fact that the warming we’re currently seeing is happening far faster than it ought to. You can only really grasp the speed of what’s going on if you grasp the depth of time …"
Part 10.
https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-40-the-chthulucene-doom-on-a-satellite/
---> https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/the-geological-sublime-lewis-hyde-deep-time/
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#ICYMI “rocks are best understood not as nouns but verbs, signifying events and processes…Herein lies Earth’s secret to wrinkling time…Accepting that we too live in geologic time can free us from narcissism…We may then realize that the text of the Earth itself is full of guidance on durable design and start laying the groundwork for a post-Anthropocene world” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/wrinkled-time/ via @emergencemagazine re: #deeptime #geologictime + more
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“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614Megafauna Rock Art
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-shows-extinct-megafauna/6561788#Burrup #DeepTime #FirstNations #iceAge #illustration #MegaFauna #Murujuga #Petroglyphs