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geologic time

noun

  1. the succession of eras, periods, and epochs as considered in historical geology.


geologic time

/ jē′ə-lŏjĭk /

  1. The period of time covering the formation and development of the Earth, from about 4.6 billion years ago to today.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of geologic time1

First recorded in 1860–65

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Example Sentences

For these problems, an exhaustive brute-force search for a solution would likely go on for an impractically long time—geologic time—before producing an answer.

In some scenes, Kleeman even scans through geologic time, to a primordial past and a future reclaimed by wilderness, where her characters are completely forgotten.

Signs mark geologic time as the path descends through layers of rock and into the ancient past.

Like geologic time, my life is divided into distinct food periods.

The change in organisms throughout geologic time has been a progressive change.

Geologic time divisions compared with those of human history.

The great length of geologic time inferred from the slow change of species.

From geologic evidence it is known that Florida has been rising since late geologic time.

Even in the Archeozoic the rocks testify to a climate seemingly not greatly different from that of the average of geologic time.

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