"These were the driving questions behind the special project on deep time that High Country News published this month. (You can read the stories from the series here.) We devoted our entire January print issue to the topic. For the cover image, we asked illustrator Alex Boersma to create a stylized geologic timescale of Earth focused specifically on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the Western United States."
"From the swampy temperate forests that flourished here more than 300 million years ago and eventually formed many of the region's coal deposits to the Colorado River beginning to carve the Grand Canyon just 5-6 million years ago - the blink of an eye in geologic time - the resulting illustration highlights many elements of the West's rich geologic past."
A special project explored how the West looked a thousand, a million, and even a billion years ago and how that history remains visible and consequential today. The entire January print issue was devoted to deep time. A cover illustration by Alex Boersma presents a stylized geologic timescale focused on Western landscapes, flora, and fauna. The illustration connects swampy temperate forests from over 300 million years ago that formed coal deposits with much younger events such as the Colorado River carving the Grand Canyon 5–6 million years ago. An annotated, interactive version links elements of geologic history to related stories and resources, and news organizations are invited to republish the material.
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