Deep Time: Discovering an Ancient Earth

Ever since our ancestors ventured onto the African savanna, human beings have searched, explored, and wondered about the world. Nowadays, and certainly for most, science is the vehicle that takes us along a path towards understanding nature. It can bring us from sub-atomic realms to the most distant galaxies. Largely through the discipline of geology, science allows us to push back the mists of time and peer into a past measured in billions of years, and aptly referred to as “Deep Time.” C

• Communicate and teach the underpinnings of geology and deep time.
• Evaluate the evidence supporting the age of the earth, and review the geologic story of the Rocky Mountains.
• Apply geological data, models, and investigations.