Basin and Range

McPhee, J. (1981). Basin and Range.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1981

Link

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374516901/basinandrange/

Cited from

earth_sciences

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• Deep Time
  • T2: Calibration versus intuition.

    This sourceFarrar, Straus and Giroux. Coined 'deep time' as a literary handle for geological timescales and modeled narrative anchors (mountain ages, plate-motion rates) that make magnitudes felt.

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    McPhee states that large numbers fail to convey deep time and shows anchoring analogies (a Triassic road trip, an inch every thousand years); the claim that he coined the term is not in this text.

    “Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time. Any number above a couple of thousand years--fifty thousand, fifty million--will with nearly equal effect awe the imagination to the point of paralysis.”

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