It marks "one of the great religious centers" of the ancient world," the magazine Archaeology reported in 2009, as the excavations were being finished, and offers "a unique glimpse into the religious architecture, beliefs and practices of the ancient Near East over a vast span of time".
What little fossil-bearing rock exists from this vast span of time is dominated by marine strata along the west coast.
Though "Girls Like Us" covers vast spans of time and territory, Ms. Weller comfortably evokes many different milieus.
Despite a family resemblance, there is considerable stylistic variation across the vast spans of time and space that produced the figurines.
Under Mr. Schaller, the Swiss brand has used other rare items that, like petroleum, represent the passage of vast spans of time, such as fossilized dinosaur bone, moon rock and stromatolite.
Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet's living beings have been purged by planetary catastrophes so extreme they make your typical Ice Age look like the geological equivalent of a stroll in the park.
This chapter explains evolutionary biology, which has suffered from a debilitating incapacity to determine whether or not the events of evolution display any law-like behavior and in particular to decide how rapidly those events occurred, given the vast spans of time that were available for them to do so.
In his introduction, Simpson says that "…experimental biology in general and genetics in particular have the grave defect that they cannot reproduce the vast and complex horizontal extent of the natural environment and, particularly, the immense span of time in which population changes really occur.
Cliff's narrative covers a huge span of time.
Radiometric dating also helped geochronologists discover the vast span of geologic time.
It opened the eyes of educated readers to the vast span of geologic time, and was the beginning of the end for the belief that all creation dated back just 6,000 years to the Garden of Eden.
