Geology Quote by D. V. Ager

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks,…

— M. King Hubbert

Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that…

— D. V. Ager

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

We're changing things, in many cases in irreparable ways, and that will certainly be recorded in the geological record.

— Kenneth Lacovara

The very foundation of our science is only an inference; far the whole of it rests an the unprovable assumption that, all through the…

— William Morris Davis

“Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is…

— Ron Rash

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet…

— Terence McKenna

“The formations run from the Late Permian to Early Cretaceous Periods. That’s 200 million years’ worth of deep time. When you look closely, the…

— Bill Nye

When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it.

— Augustus William Hare

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted…

— Ezra Pound

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the…

— Adam Haslett