Category Archives: deep time

Sorry creationists: rocks just aren’t that coy about their age

and they’re not embarrassed about being a few billion.
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Categories: antiscience, deep time

The Chronologer’s Quest

The story of how we finally calculated the Earth’s birthday (review)
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Categories: deep time, geology

Moving on from Baby Rocks

I’ve spent most of the last five years studying rocks formed in the last 10-20 million years. By normal human standards, that’s quite old. If each of those 20 million years was compressed into a single second, we’re still looking … Continue reading

Categories: deep time, geology