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Neo-Eocene
- Oliver Kellhammer(author)
Chapter of: Making the Geologic Now: Responses to Material Conditions of Contemporary Life(pp. 196–201)
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| Title | Neo-Eocene |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Oliver Kellhammer(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0014.1.35 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/making-the-geologic-now/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Kellhammer, Oliver |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-04 |
| Long abstract | Back in the mid-1960s, I was a feral sort of a child who loved scampering around construc-tion sites, climbing the huge, grey piles of excavated shale that were popping up all over my rapidly developing Toronto suburb. I might have been six or so when I first really noticed the slabs of muddy smelling rock often contained the imprints of scallop shells, snails, and fragments of coral, things I recognized from picture books but hadn’t yet seen in real life as we lived hundreds of miles from the near-est ocean. Yet 450 million years before, during the Ordovician era, where I was playing would have been the middle of a vast ocean whose limpid, tropical waters teemed with fantastic life forms such as giant, predatory sea scorpions and nautiloids that jetted through the primeval currents like living missiles. I knew this from visiting the Royal Ontario Museum’s brand new, McLuhan-inspired, Hall of Invertebrate Paleontology, which recreated detailed dioramas of life in Ontario’s ancient seas, complete with theatrical lighting and interactive, taped-looped narratives played through banks of telephone receivers |
| Page range | pp. 196–201 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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