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Petra van Cronenburg<p>🧵 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Titanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Titanic</span></a> sank in 1912. When I was a very small child, I knew an old woman who narrowly escaped this disaster. As the governess of a US millionaire's children, she was supposed to be travelling on the Titanic. They arrived too late in England and couldn't get tickets.</p><p>Shortly before her death, she gave me some old <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/yarn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yarn</span></a>. I haven't dared to use it to this day because it's like travelling back in <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/deepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deepTime</span></a>. 113 years can feel so near.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>museum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/embroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>embroidery</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fiberArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fiberArts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a></p>
FID Darstellende Kunst<p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/callforpapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>callforpapers</span></a> <br>International Conference "Queer Ecology and the Temporal Imagination" </p><p>26 - 27 February 2026 at the Center for Gender and Diversity Research (ZGD), University of Tübingen, Germany </p><p>Deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2025.</p><p>👉 More info: <a href="https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/cfp-international-conference-queer-ecology-and-the-temporal-imagination-tübingen/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">performing-arts.eu/de/news/new</span><span class="invisible">sstream/cfp-international-conference-queer-ecology-and-the-temporal-imagination-tübingen/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/socialscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialscience</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/lifescience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lifescience</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/naturalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturalscience</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/deeptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deeptime</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/queerecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerecology</span></a> <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/temporality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>temporality</span></a></p>
charrvein<p>Great visualization of the planet through time</p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>earth</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/continents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continents</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sea</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/deeptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deeptime</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#20" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-e</span><span class="invisible">arth#20</span></a></p>
Shaun Chamberlin<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@urlyman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>urlyman</span></a></span> <br>Here's a powerful demonstration of these realities we put together that went viral on Facebook, before I left there ✊ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a><br><a href="https://peertube-ecogather-u20874.vm.elestio.app/w/1rfTtyc7GrShYSfo9ss9kL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube-ecogather-u20874.vm.e</span><span class="invisible">lestio.app/w/1rfTtyc7GrShYSfo9ss9kL</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"Coming face to face with the lionfish in the warming waters of the central Aegean is a reminder that the present ecological catastrophe is also a catastrophe of colonialism, one which has been unfolding for centuries."</p><p>James Bridle for Emergence Magazine: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/02/11/here-come-the-lionfish/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">longreads.com/2025/02/11/here-</span><span class="invisible">come-the-lionfish/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Longreads</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Essay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ocean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Lionfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lionfish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a></p>
Anne Deschaine<p>A melancholy, unsettling, but wonderful read.</p><p><a href="https://www.noemamag.com/deep-time-sickness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">noemamag.com/deep-time-sicknes</span><span class="invisible">s/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/deepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deepTime</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a></p>
Steve Peterson<p>prairie and pink Sioux quartzite<br>Touch-the-sky prairie, SW Minnesota<br>October 2024</p><p>Kinda cool that the quartzite is about 1.5 BY old that was once sandstone that formed in shallow rivers eroded from mountains that were that much older yet.</p><p>Every place a person might walk has a history, whether human or natural, that will blow your mind.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/deeptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deeptime</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/time" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>time</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/naturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>naturephotography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LandscapePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandscapePhotography</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackAndWhite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAndWhite</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>what but imagination could have read <br>granite boulders back to their molten roots?<br>And how far back was back, and how far on<br>would basalt still be basalt, iron iron?</p><p>—Edwin Morgan certainly though so, and was inspired – by Burns &amp; Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth” (first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EdwinMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinMorgan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> </p><p>3/3</p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,<br>And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…</p><p>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)?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertBurns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> </p><p>2/3</p><p><a href="https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/</span><span class="invisible">10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a>, was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the concluding sentence of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>. It reads,</p><p>The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> </p><p>1/3</p>
Ian Robinson<p>Siccar Point - The birthplace of modern geology — British Geological Survey </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/JCEDCcHcpYE?si=pyLH3tJnXtabgUDU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/JCEDCcHcpYE?si=pyLH3t</span><span class="invisible">JnXtabgUDU</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a></p>
Bill Minarik<p>Anthropocene trace fossils, and likely just as transient as the Anthropocene!</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FossilFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFriday</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Autumn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autumn</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a></p>
Matt Potter<p>Stonehenge under gales &amp; a lowering sky today, sheep grazing on it. Prehistory is more important than ever at times when the roar &amp; 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 &amp; grazing status, is to understand the absurd futility of lines on maps.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/stonehenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stonehenge</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/salisburyplain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>salisburyplain</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/neolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neolithic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/deeptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deeptime</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistoric</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/stoneage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stoneage</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/overvieweffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>overvieweffect</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ozymandias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ozymandias</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/megalithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>megalithic</span></a></p>
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>History of black <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/corals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corals</span></a> rewritten <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-10-history-black-corals-rewritten.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2023-10-history-</span><span class="invisible">black-corals-rewritten.html</span></a></p><p>Bathymetric <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> of black corals through <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1107" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rspb.2023.1107</span></a></p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> have rewritten the history of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/BlackCorals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackCorals</span></a>, revealing their origin on the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ContinentalSlopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContinentalSlopes</span></a> (250–3,000 meters deep) 437 million years ago."</p>
Vicky Veritas<p>How does <a href="https://c.im/tags/Zircon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zircon</span></a> remember? This zircon is 4.4 BILLION years old and records the isotopic and chemical characteristics of the rock in which it is formed. Zircon can survive erosion, deposition, partial melting, and fracturing. <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MInCup23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MInCup23</span></a></p>
PhyloPic<p>Get PhyloPic posters and Pocket Phylogenies as reward add-ons for backing the PALEOCENE #4 crowdfunding campaign by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@keeseycomics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>keeseycomics</span></a></span>! <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keesey/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">kickstarter.com/projects/keese</span><span class="invisible">y/paleocene-4-comic-book/posts/3905852</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/sciart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sciart</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/scicomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scicomm</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/paleoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paleoart</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/deeptime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deeptime</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prehistoric</span></a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/silhouette" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silhouette</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>what but imagination could have read <br>granite boulders back to their molten roots?<br>And how far back was back, and how far on<br>would basalt still be basalt, iron iron?</p><p>—Edwin Morgan certainly though so, and was inspired – by Burns &amp; Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth” (first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/20thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>20thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/EdwinMorgan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdwinMorgan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <br>3/3</p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>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)?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RobertBurns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RobertBurns</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <br>2/3<br><a href="https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/</span><span class="invisible">10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/</span></a></p>
Assoc for Scottish Literature<p>James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Geology</span></a>, was born <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a>, 3 June. One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the concluding sentence of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>. It reads,</p><p>The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scottish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scottish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/18thcentury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>18thcentury</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a> <br>1/3</p>
llewelly<p>the Boring Billion<br>a billion years of Earth<br>known mostly from<br>boring deep holes<br>in rocks quite old<br>trust me<br>it's exciting<br>not nearly so boring<br>as you've been told</p><p>see these<br>vase-shaped amoebae<br>their diversity doth fluctuate<br>to some essential conditions<br>it must relate</p><p>these several shifting<br>isotope ratios,<br>oh what tales they tell</p><p>and here or there<br>may be the origin<br>of Eukaryotes<br>or multicellular life<br>or even fungi</p><p><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/BoringBillion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoringBillion</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/DeepTime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepTime</span></a><br><a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a></p>
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