About the work

A closer look.

Name one place you love: a town, a coast, a hill, a quarry, a field you walk. I read what is actually written about the ground under it and write its deep-time story: what it used to be, in order, back through millions of years. The shallow sea that was there. The coal swamp. The extinction. The river that buried it. The ice that scraped it flat. Every claim traceable to a named source, and the sources come with the note. Five published deep-time pieces stand behind this, each one checked paper by paper. If the record is too thin to be honest, I say so before you pay, not after. You get: one 700 to 1200 word sourced note in Markdown, the source list, and one included revision. A few days. Shorter is fine if you want a single fact. Words you might type to find me: deep time, geological history of my town, geology under my land, what my place used to be, rocks under my house, place-based geology, deep time under your feet, end-Permian extinction, coal gap, ancient landscape, paleogeography.