{"id":587,"date":"2011-10-09T21:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T19:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2011-10-09T21:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T19:48:38","slug":"a-tale-of-times-long-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-tale-of-times-long-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of times long gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/Warren_River_Minnesota_River_Red_Riever_Falls_Glacial_Geology.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"416\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A river runs by it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0See the wide channel that runs from left to right with the windy river in it? You are looking at one of the most amazing stories in geological history ever. I&#8217;d like to tell you about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over on Scienceblogs, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/a_river_runs_by_it_children_gr.php\">Greg Laden has a great article<\/a>. He starts by looking at above map and digs back into the history of the landscape depicted in it. I loved the images he&#8217;s capable of evoking, of a landscape and of events long gone. Maps do tell stories. And the landscapes they depict are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palimpsest\">palimpsests<\/a>, shaped by numerous processes and events at wildly different scales, different frequencies and durations.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: Beware! After reading Greg&#8217;s article, you may end up donating for a classroom skeleton! You wonder, why? There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/a_river_runs_by_it_children_gr.php\">only one way to find out<\/a> :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0See the wide channel that runs from left to right with the windy river in it? You are looking at one of the most amazing stories in geological history ever. I&#8217;d like to tell you about it. Over on Scienceblogs, Greg Laden has a great article. He starts by looking at above map and digs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/10\/a-tale-of-times-long-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A tale of times long gone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[23,41,52,60,62,124,127],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note","tag-cartography","tag-earth-sciences","tag-geo","tag-greg-laden","tag-history","tag-visual","tag-warren-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-9t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}