Periodicals>Journal Article:  Barrell, Joseph (1917), Rhythm and the Measurement of Geologic Time, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Retrieved on 2011-12-16
Folksonomies: geology

Memes

16 DEC 2011

 The Rhythms of Nature

Nature vibrates with rhythms, climatic and diastrophic, those finding stratigraphic expression ranging in period from the rapid oscillation of surface waters, recorded in ripple-mark, to those long-deferred stirrings of the deep imprisoned titans which have divided earth history into periods and eras. The flight of time is measured by the weaving of composite rhythms- day and night, calm and storm, summer and winter, birth and death such as these are sensed in the brief life of man. But the c...
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We experience oscillations of all sorts in our lifetime, but the Universe has much larger waves hidden in geologic time.

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