Shallow Time: The Burren Angeliki Diakrousi George Washington U

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With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet’s long history

Vogel-Saurier

Shallow Time: The Burren Angeliki Diakrousi George Washington UHumans lack the capacity to comprehend geological time, a breadth unfathomable from our biological perspective. Our callous extraction of resources negates the patience of geomorphology. The Burrens karst landscape instinctively rejects the notion of deep time. Its proximity to the visible surface belies its layered creation over millennia. It is a unique terrain where natural processes can be appreciated rather than exploited. A landscape that can be