Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Geological Time and Psychological Time
Geological Time and Psychological Time
Page Range: 190 – 191
The ‘flow’ of time from the future to the past through a dimensionless present is a dramatic feature of our experience. In this paper I argue that the flow of time has found its way into the practice of stratigraphy where it has been detrimental to our clear conception of geologic time.
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