Deep time
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Deep time is the concept of geologic time. The philosophical concept of deep time was developed in the 18th century by Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726–1797); his "system of the habitable Earth" was a deistic mechanism keeping the world eternally suitable for humans.
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See also
- Big History
- Deep history
- Clock of the Long Now
- General relativity
- Geomorphology
- Orders of magnitude (time)
- Palaeoarchaeology
- The World Without Us, a non-fiction book by Alan Weisman.
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