FOSSIL SONG: Reflections on the Metamorphosis of This Earth Sooner or later the lush pastures of today will be transformed into parched deserts as moisture evaporates Sooner or later ocean beds where sea creatures now roam will be thrust upwards into mountains stretched across volcanic slopes Soon enough the landscapes before our eyes this day will be transformed into unfamiliar shapes Soon enough beings unlike you or me will tread above our footprints musing about antiquity ===================================================================================== from Desert Chants: Hearing the Voice of the Wilderness SUMMARY: Some thoughts about continental drift and environmental change. KEYWORDS: plate tectonics, continental rifts, geological time scales, terran metamorphoses Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?) Begun: 2000 in Taipei, Taiwan ✶ Finished: 2011 in Tokyo, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted LAST https://www.tnewfields.info/Desert/kachina.htm TOC https://www.tnewfields.info/Desert/index.html NEXT > https://www.tnewfields.info/Desert/canyon.htm TRANSLATIONS ESPAÑOL https://www.tnewfields.info/es/fosil.htm NIHONGO https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/kaseki.htm ZHŌNGWÉN https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/huashi