Sunday, April 10, 2011

Understanding timing of environmental change using grains of sand


The poet William Blake mused about seeing all the world in a grain of sand. For University of the Fraser Valley geography professor Dr. Olav Lian and his student research assistants, it’s more a case of seeing how aspects of the physical world have changed over time by analyzing long-buried grains of sand.

As geochronologists, Lian and his associates view time very differently than many of us; they do this by studying the physical environment as it has changed over the millennia.

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