DeepTime Atlas

Five places to read the Earth

• Isle of Skye

  Briefing

  Fire, sea, then ice

  A volcanic island later carved by glaciers and the Atlantic.

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  Fire shaped the rock; ice shaped the land.

  FireIceCoast

• Dolomites

  Briefing

  Ancient seas lifted into cathedrals

  Pale carbonate worlds raised into towers.

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  Ancient sea-floor material lifted into mountains.

  Ancient seasMountainsCarbonate

• Grand Canyon

  Briefing

  Time cut open

  Layer upon layer of vanished environments revealed by river incision.

  DeepTime lens

  A river cut through a stack of vanished worlds.

  CanyonsRiversStratigraphy

• Giant's Causeway

  Briefing

  Lava turned geometric

  Basalt columns where cooling rock cracked into natural architecture.

  DeepTime lens

  Cooling lava turned contraction into geometry.

  FireBasaltCoast

• Cappadocia

  Briefing

  Ash carved into towers

  Soft volcanic deposits sculpted into fairy chimneys and valleys.

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  Soft volcanic ash became architecture by erosion.

  VolcanoesErosionTuff