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Find Yourself in the Origins of the Earth
Timelines of Earth
The timelines presented in Echoes of Earth, shift the reader’s perspective by first showing the typical view where the first 4 billion years is minimized and then showing the full view where, for the first time, the reader gets to see the full story of Earth’s development, the partnership of ancient minerals and ancient life that built our current world and made complex life possible.
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Images from Echoes of Earth {click any image below to enlarge}
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- Acasta gneiss, NWT Canada--Younger, reddish stone rests on top of the 4-billion-year-old darker greenstone at the Acasta site. During the last Ice Age, massive glaciers may have pushed these rock layers together, creating vivid contrasts in color and texture.
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- Acasta gneiss, NWT Canada--This ancient stone, nearly 4 billion years old, is exposed on a small island on the Acasta River. It has witnessed almost all of Earth history, including the entire rise and evolution of life.
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- Acasta gneiss, NWT Canada-- The blue-green color gives this ancient stone the look and feel of whale skin. As one geologist put it, “This is as close to the original skin of Earth as you can get.”
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- Akilia Island, Greenland--The waves and ripples in this 3.8 billion-year-old stone were created as immense tectonic forces melted and deformed the stone over millions of years. It endured temperatures of up to 1300 degrees F and pressures of nearly 50,000 pounds per square inch.
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- Akilia Island, Greenland--This dark greenstone was formed 3.8 billion years ago. Over millions of years, the stone was heated, compressed, and folded, creating these ribbons of light and dark rock.
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- Mt. Narryer, Western Australia—Mt. Narryer turns blood red at sunset. Its rocks contain some of the oldest minerals on Earth—4.2 to 3.8 billion years old. Mt. Narryer is the guardian of Earth’s ancient history. In 2009, the mountain was granted National Heritage status to protect it from mining interests.
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- Mt. Narryer, Western Australia--This sandstone formation at the top of Mt. Narryer stands like a sentinel guarding the mountain's geologic treasures. The rocks that make up Mt. Narryer erode slowly in the dry air. Wind is the most powerful sculptor of the stone in this region.
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- Shark Bay, Western Australia--These living stromatolites in Hamlin Pool, Shark Bay, were built by the descendants of ancient bacteria. Stromatolites once lined the coast of every continent on Earth, but today are found in only a few areas of the world. Shark Bay has been declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations.
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- Grand Canyon, United States--The Grand Canyon contains some of the oldest stone in the United States. Called the Vishnu schist, this stone was formed nearly 2 billion years ago from layers of volcanic ash and debris. The layers were gradually transformed by heat and pressure into the denser schist.
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- Yellowknife, NWT Canada--In this close-up it is easy to see the layers in the fossil stromatolite built by tiny bacteria. Bacteria and Archaea were the dominant forms of life on Earth for nearly three-quarters of Earth's history.
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- Yellowknife - Fossil Stromatolite Peak with Lichen
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- Yellowknife, NWT Canada--This fossil is a remnant of a vast colony built by colonies of bacteria nearly 1.7 billion years ago. These colonies were clustered along the shoreline of an inland sea that once covered the entire center of North America.
Frequently Asked Questions
• What is the approach that drives the design?
• This is the first time anyone has put all these sites into one volume, presenting their geologic importance, their sheer beauty and power, and their link to our own bodies.
• How did we accomplish this purpose?
• Through the layouts—foldouts, half pages, and die cuts–shifting readers’ perspectives from our ego-centric view of nature to the true relationship and dependence we have on everything that sustains us.
• What will the reader get out of it?
• Connecting the importance of the oldest minerals and rocks to our new understanding of Earth’s history—they are the memory keepers
• Giving people a brief history of Earth’s geologic development
• Linking our human bodies to the long history of Earth
• Providing a unique comparison of timelines to show what a narrow view we have of the planet’s story, which gave rise to us.
