If your feed reader is missing a feed or two try http://www.extinctblog.org/extinct/ with it's roughly monthly long form articles on Ediacaran fauna and history of geology. The long gone past of life and mountains that you never knew about so very present as a blog.

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The centimeter wide rock layer that records the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary that ended the rein of the dinosaurs. (It's the brown layer between the coal & light claystone layers.) It was created by the fallout of a 12km impactor that created the 250km wide Chicxulub crater offshore of the Yucatán Peninsula. The layer contains shocked quartz & an anomalous concentration of the element iridium marking an extraterrestrial impact.

(Raton, New Mexico.)

#Geology #Dinosaurs #Time #DeepTime #Biology

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🧂 Much of the revisionist argument rests on computer simulations. Models are only as good as boundary conditions and assumptions.

https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/physical-world/2026/case-against-zanclean-megaflood-filling-mediterranean #DeepTime

Es gibt Rätselfossilien, von denen ich noch nichts wusste? Was verheimlicht ihr mir noch alles?!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KusFSJSiOCQ

#paleontology #zoology #DeepTime #Carboniferous #H #Y

To the world, the Oak is merely fodder for the hearth or an obstacle to "renewal."

But the Oak is a survivor. While we overheat in discourse, it cools the air. It heals by connecting, refusing to be bent by the crimes committed against it.

Stop with the wisdom of the Gretas. Put aside your sociology degrees.

The Oak is the true manifesto for a complex society—Read on: https://library.profpeter.my/paper-trails/mastodon-short/true-science-of-the-oak

#Nature #Philosophy #Stoicism #DeepTime #BiologyOverIdeology #EcologicalWisdom #Society

"Frankly, I’m surprised you’re even interviewing me. Geologists generally treat me as a nonentity. I’m an un-rock, a cipher, just an irregular surface."

Marcia Bjornerud for High Country News: https://www.hcn.org/issues/58-1/meet-the-oldest-rock-in-the-west

#Longreads #Rocks #Geology #Science #DeepTime #History #AncientHistory #Earth #EarthScience

🧬 Life kept upgrading itself, code rewriting code. Single cells learned to cluster, then specialize, then network. Fungi arrived early, aquatic, flagellated, flinging spores like packets through water. They hacked land via algae, spun mycelial grids under shifting continents, laid dark infrastructure for everything that followed.

Evolution doesn’t rush toward dominance. It stabilizes conditions until dominance becomes possible.

#DeepTime https://bigthink.com/life/earths-complex-life-began-with-a-fungus/