Deep time brings comfort in hard times

ABSTRACT

Or consider the fossil-rich cliffs of Lyme Regis, on England's south coast, where the mineralized bodies of ammonites and other long-vanished creatures collected by fossil hunters such as Mary Anning in the nineteenth century forced us to take the long view. Time capsules That's the deep-time perspective Gordon craves. A trip to Utah lumps a visit to a famed bone bed with ruminations on the sale of fossils, and dinosaurs' enduring appeal to children.