http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-real-old-timer/ focused on, near and under Oakland, California Sat, 18 May 2013 23:16:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2012/04/15/a-real-old-timer/#comment-2827 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:21:00 +0000 http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/?p=1336#comment-2827 Scientifically-trained people will likely disagree; nevertheless — it seems to me that no one can really comprehend so long a time span. I was awakened to this by a tour guide at Old York. We tourists were struggling to grasp the expanse of human history there (prehistory, Vikings, medieval battlements, cathedrals) and he pointed out a fossil in a stone that was part of a castle. “That’s about 25 million years old”, he said. “You can’t grasp that.” In the context of day by day life and history, he was right.

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