1·In geological time, a million years is recent history.
在地质时代，一百万年属于近代史。
2·Ever since people had begun to catalog the strata in particular outcrops, there had been the hope that these could somehow be used to calculate geological time.
"从人们开始对地表的特殊岩层进行编目和分类时起，大家就开始期望能够以某种方式利用这些岩层来计算地质年代。
3·The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
宇宙对我们施加的影响非常紧迫，但是地质时间却与众不同。
4·On the geological time scale mankind has existed but for a brief moment.
人类在地质年代表中已经存在，但时间不长。
5·Biochronology The measurement of geological time using biological events.
使用生物学事件来测量地质学时间。
6·In the 18th James Hutton opened up depths of geological time that dwarf the narrow now.
18世纪的詹姆斯·赫顿(James Hutton)开辟了地质时代的深度，现在这个研究范围已经很窄了。
7·Geologists have devised a special geological time scale in reference to the earth's evolution.
地质学家们根据地球的演化历史，设计出一种特殊的地质年代表。
8·Pangea existed between 550 and 200 million years ago--which is relatively recent in geological time.
根据最新的地质时期表，泛古陆存在于2亿至5.5亿年前。
9·Of course, we're talking geological time here, which is measured in tens of thousands of years.
当然，我们现在谈论的是地史时期，是以数万年测量的。
10·Scientists are now debating whether it should be officially included in the Geological Time Scale.
科学家正讨论是否应正式把这个时期列入地质年代表。