Science Graphic of the Week: 5.3 Million Years of Sea Level Change on One Cliff Face

It's not often that we think about deep time. Lucky to live for a century, humans flitter like mayflies across Earth's surface, our own epoch an eyeblink in a planetary history that's largely hidden from everyday consciousness. Every now and then, though, that history punches right through into the present.

















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