But this is an incomplete, and even irresponsible, way to depict our place in deep time.
"It's a battle to stay in deep time," Sussman has written.
Yet another possibility is to use the world's subway systems, an idea that also has precedent in deep time.
As a geologist, I plant one foot (metaphorically) in the present day and the other foot in Deep Time.
"My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
I'm gripped, almost physically, with the sheer magnitude of this place, frozen in deep time yet brimming with uniquely adapted life.
Even the expert eye, he argues, could not order such fossils in any reasonable patterns of ancestor-and-descendant relationships, so shrouded in deep time are they.
At some point back in deep time, a group of fish were washed into a limestone cave somewhere in northeastern Mexico.
It was a mythic place for me where once long ago, in deep time as far as I was concerned, Dan had studied to become a priest.
History is full of dynasties and armies, documents and artifacts, but lacks, especially in deep time, the flesh and sinew of shared humanity.
