Show threadKeiran RowellJun 15

Breathing ancient #oxygen at #MONA, where they liberate it from banded iron formations in their 'Breathe' installation.

A taste of the gas from back when it was corroding a new world into existence

https://darkmofo.net.au/program/breathe

#SciArt #GreatOxidationEvent #deeptime #geology #DarkMofo #Tasmania

Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureJun 14

James Hutton that true son of fire who said
to Burns “Aye, man, the rocks melt wi the sun”…

—Edwin Morgan thought so, & was inspired – by Burns & Hutton – to write “Theory of the Earth”: one of his SONNETS FROM SCOTLAND, first published in New Writing Scotland 2, 1984

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#Scottish #literature #EdwinMorgan #poem #poetry #20thcentury #RobertBurns #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology #sonnet

Show threadAssoc for Scottish LiteratureJun 14

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun…

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)?

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https://sunnydunny.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/robert-burns-and-geology/

#Scottish #literature #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #romanticism #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology

Robert Burns and geology

I was invited to give a talk on Robert Burns and geology to a meeting of the Geological Society in its day-long celebration of poetry and geology on 10th October.  Several friends have asked me for…

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Assoc for Scottish LiteratureJun 14

James Hutton (1726–1797), father of modern geology, was born #OTD, 14 June (NS; 3 June OS). One of the first European proponents of “deep time”, the conclusion of his 1788 paper “Theory of the Earth” has been called one of the most lyrical sentences in all of science:

The result, therefore, of our present enquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,—no prospect of an end.

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https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/2808

#Scottish #literature #Enlightenment #18thcentury #DeepTime #science #geology

Show threadpsybertronJun 14

@antlerboy
Yes, I shared this episode at the time.

Only disagreement with Peter is his dissing of "history" - it's the point of "In Our Time".

The best way to understand what we have is to study its evolution over time.
#BigHistory #LongNow #DeepTime #NonErgodic

Duncan StephenJun 12

Towering Inferno

I don’t normally write about music any more, but I feel compelled to write about the new Boards of Canada album, Inferno. It has far exceeded my expectations. I can’t remember the last time I was so immediately hooked on an album — 15 or 20 years ago, or longer.

https://duncanstephen.net/towering-inferno/

Nam HendersonJun 11
"All told, the graveyard extends 745 miles (1,200 kilometers) along the sea floor. The researchers found at least five active whale falls...also documented 476 fossilized whales, and of the 25 collected samples that could be dated, the most ancient was about 5.3 million years old. That suggests that whales have fostered this unique deep-sea ecosystem for at least that long." https://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-just-discovered-a-5-million-year-old-whale-necropolis-in-the-deep-sea-2000769050 re: #DeepTime #Lagerstätten
Scientists Have Just Discovered a 5 Million-Year-Old Whale Necropolis in the Deep Sea

It's the oldest, largest, and deepest graveyard of whale falls ever found—and it's been feeding life for millions of years.

Gizmodo
earthlingJun 6

The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis by Bill McGuire, 2026

The Fate of the World is a 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth, putting contemporary global heating in the context of geological epochs and periods to reveal what past climate change can tell us about our planet’s future.

#books
#nonfiction
#ClimateChange
#paleontology
#geology
#DeepTime

WendyJun 4
Sixty-two million years ago, four million years after the sky fell, a stretch of Egyptian seafloor filled with fish — and held them, perfectly, in stone. Five hundred specimens. More than twenty kinds. A petrified aquarium pulled from blistering sand at a site called Qreiya 3. The asteroid gutted the ocean's food webs, and into that emptied water the percomorphs exploded into needle-toothed predators and the ancestors of tuna and seahorses.
https://twp.ai/4hs7AI
#Fossils #Paleontology #Science #Egypt #Ocean #Nature #Extinction #DeepTime #NatGeo #EarthHistory #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
Mz* Baltazar's LaboratoryJun 3

#workshop by #danielabrillestrada @MzBaltazarsLab
In this workshop we will take a closer look into #rocks minerals, and other geological
formations. Starting with a theoretical introduction into the history of geological taxonomies, and into concepts like #deeptime . In a practical part, we will grow #crystals, explore their properties, and write about how they defy and challenge taxonomies and binaries.

13.6.26, 13-15h
#art #vienna #wien