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  • In the period after the French Revolution, as Martin Rudwick argues, the specialization of the earth sciences led to the formation of geohistory and a theory of "deep history"

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • But in the short term, geohistory has an incalculable effect on the human history to which it is transferentially related.

    'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

  • As the little sled zipped past, saucily irreverent of the frozen geohistory, Kai was filled with a mixture of awe and amusement: awe of the great forces still working which had formed the rift and might very well reform it times imaginable in the existence of this planet; and amusement that Man dared to pinpoint one tiny moment of those inexorable courses and attempt to put his mark upon it.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Articles on geohistory and radioactive decay speculation.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Analog 939 - Stanley Schmidt Blue Tyson 2009

  • I would expect less complex systems to be more resilient than complex ones, looking back at the formation of life in single celled organisms in a period of geohistory when ionizing radiation was greater than now as background environment.

    Acorns Gone; Nature Does What GOP Fails to Do 2008

  • As the little sled zipped past, saucily irreverent of the frozen geohistory, Kai was filled with a mixture of awe and amusement: awe of the great forces still working which had formed the rift and might very well reform it times imaginable in the existence of this planet; and amusement that Man dared to pinpoint one tiny moment of those inexorable courses and attempt to put his mark upon it.

    Dinosaur Planet McCaffrey, Anne 1978

  • In another feature article, geochemist Robert M. Hazen also proposes a new view-one applied to our understanding of how Earth's deep geohistory shaped its mineral riches.

    Scientific American 2010

  • I've interpreted some geohistory - THERE MUST BE A GOD!

    Wired Top Stories 2009

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