#deeptime — Public Fediverse posts

"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

“What’s Sacred “2015
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/backgroundbriefing/whats-sacred-now/6549614

Megafauna 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

Ari Dharminalan Rudenko, the artistic director of Prehistoric Body Theater, discusses his background and how his childhood fascination with dinosaurs led him to combine dance and science communication. He explains the formation of Prehistoric Body Theater in Surakarta, Indonesia, and its focus on accuracy in science communication.

Ari also shares his collaboration with palaeontologists and the challenges of incorporating scientific knowledge into dance performances and the process of choosing specific prehistoric animals as characters in his performances.

Prehistoric Body Theater uses stagecraft and set design to create a portal for the audience’s imagination, allowing them to journey into deep time. The performances incorporate prosthetic elements and clay-textured sets to create a sensory experience. The company aims to tour their work globally and continue to bridge the gap between art and science.

Check out more about Prehistoric Body Theater ⁠https://www.prehistoricbody.org/⁠

https://www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/05/22/episode-33-the-science-of-dance-at-prehistoric-body-theatre/

#accuracy #Acheroraptor #anatomy #AriDharminalanRudenko #artisticExpression #behavior #choreography #dance #DanceCreationStudies #deepTime #dinosaurs #evolution #globalTouring #Heikoichthys #immersiveExperiences #IndonesianTraditions #movement #paleontology #practiceBasedPhD #PrehistoricBodyTheater #Purgatorius #ScienceCommunication #scientificCommunities #stagecraft

a paddle on the edge of #deepTime - Revolutions

#poem #poetry #imagism
#poetrycommunity
#wrdz

Stonehenge under gales & a lowering sky today, sheep grazing on it. Prehistory is more important than ever at times when the roar & clamour of now seems to drown us. To stand with the megaliths and barrows, their cultural urgency in Neolithic Britain dissolved into monumental uncertainty, relic & grazing status, is to understand the absurd futility of lines on maps.

#stonehenge #salisburyplain #neolithic #deeptime #prehistory #prehistoric #stoneage #overvieweffect #ozymandias #megalithic

I wish I knew what kinds of #weather changes (if any?) happened when #flying #insects became widespread in the #Carboniferous (or before?), again when flying #pterosaurs became widespread in the #Triassic, a third time when flying #birds became widespread (late #Jurassic or early #Cretaceous), and fourth time when flying #bats became widespread in the #Paleocene.

#dinosaurs
#deepTime

the Boring Billion
a billion years of Earth
known mostly from
boring deep holes
in rocks quite old
trust me
it's exciting
not nearly so boring
as you've been told

see these
vase-shaped amoebae
their diversity doth fluctuate
to some essential conditions
it must relate

these several shifting
isotope ratios,
oh what tales they tell

and here or there
may be the origin
of Eukaryotes
or multicellular life
or even fungi

#life
#BoringBillion
#DeepTime
#fungi
#poetry

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"Sweden approves nuclear waste storage site"

Both Sweden and Finland conducted extensive surveys of the "best" location for their deep geological nuclear waste storage site.

Coincidentally....both decided on sites that where their #nuclear power plants are already located.

How oddly convenient that the "best" location for millennia long waste storage is already owned by the industry and where they employ the local community. Two times!

I write about this dynamic and other ways that you can see that our deep-time decisions are made largely on the politics of the present in my book *Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha*

#Sweden #NuclearWaste #SKB #Forsmark #DeepTime #Anthropocene @sts

https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-approve-nuclear-waste-storage-site/

#GregoryBenford - What is the Far Far #Future of #Humans in the #Universe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPTF_KZnzOE&ab_channel=CloserToTruth

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Physics #Futurology #DeepTime #Engineering #PlanetaryEngineering #Time #Human #HumanSpecies #Earth #PlanetEarth #Climate #HotSun #Mars #Terraform #Terraforming #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

“We should resist such inertial thinking; indeed, we should urge its opposite — deep time as a radical perspective, provoking us to action not apathy. For to think in deep time can be a means not of escaping our troubled present, but rather of re-imagining it; countermanding its quick greed and furies with older, slower stories of making and unmaking. At its best, a deep time awareness might help us see ourselves as part of a web of gift, inheritance and legacy stretching over millions of years past and millions to come, bringing us to consider what we are leaving behind for the epochs and beings that will follow us.”

~Robert McFarlane, Underwood

#DeepTime #RobertMcFarlane #geology #CanadianShield #PrecambrianGneiss

So, 6 hours on Barton beach, and these are the ~40 million year old sand tiger shark teeth I collected. The first image is of the teeth with little weathering, and the second adds those in poorer condition. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed today, exhausted now though 😅

I have to remind myself that, in terms of the span of time, these shark lived closer to the dinosaurs than to us.

#fossils #FossilHunting #Eocene #SharkTeeth #DeepTime #geology

Snowball Earth

Through many posts we have talked about the Great Unconformity (yes, you must capitalize it) and how it occurs worldwide in different rock sections. Why? Scientists believe that at several times in Earth’s history the planet was buried in a blanket of ice. Oceans were nearly frozen. This is what scientists call Snowball Earth, or sometimes Slushball Earth.

The last occurred sometime before 650 million years ago, during the aptly named Cryogenian period. In 200 million years, uplift and the giant erosive conveyor belts of ice eroded continents down to the roots of the ancient mountains and left the land at sea level. Think the Canadian Shield. This scraped bare land is the base of the Great Unconformity. As the glaciers melted, sea level rose and covered the land and deposition of sedimentary layers began. Variations of this happened worldwide. We can focus on the North American continent which looked much different at that time. Forget anything west of Idaho or so. It wasn’t there yet.

Wyoming Geologist Myron Cook does a much better job than I could of explaining Snowball Earth, the Great Unconformity, and why different gaps, between hundreds of millions to billions of years of time, exist across what was North America at the time in his great video published only 11 days ago. Throw in a master-class in Deep Time, and you have it all put together as only a master story teller can. And there are lots of rocks, yay! Watch this wonderful video. Yes, it’s long, but you’ll absolutely hate yourself if you don’t get to see the Mineral Fork Tillite and how the story ends. Trust me.

https://youtu.be/LXzDfQyUlLg

Follow it up with further findings on Snowball earth using thermochronology by Kalin T. McDannell, et. al. including our own @brenhinkeller as they work to help determine if glaciation or the recent hypotheses of tectonic influence had more impact on denudation of the continent. Spoiler alert: read the title of this post again.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2118682119

Another version here: https://eos.org/articles/erasing-a-billion-years-of-geologic-time-across-the-globe

Pinging @BoxcarMurphy who probably knows all about this already :)

#SnowballEarth #SlushballEarth #Glaciation #Cryogenian #TheGreatUnconformity #NorthAmericanContinent #DeepTime #MyronCook #HowSnowballEarthLeveledTheContinentsAndCreatedTheGreatUnconformity #WatchTheDamnVideo #geology #ScienceMastodon @geology