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Why is place important, then?










You mentioned time, tell me about that.














Not at all.

Well, I wanted the project to be ‘lockdown-resistant’. Which it is. And I wanted the site to matter, not just to be background. I am also fairly new to this place, and discovering new things about it somewhat anchored me here. That and being forbidden from leaving.



Well, it quickly occurred to me that there were many different time scales in the park. The s geological history, indigenous history, and settlement history. The park lays them out in neat, equivalent portions. But I reject this. In reality, time is layered, and each step further back dwarfs in duration the era that replaces it… I’m sorry, my charger is very noisy, do you mind if I quickly fix that?

"The same kinds of strata in the process of forming today were also deposited during Silurian time. Because of the high sea level coupled with the low relief of many continents, production of certain Silurian sediments was proportionately different than that in the present world, however. Chief among these are limestones, which form primarily from the carbonate detritus of coral skeletons, shells, and calcified algae"
- Britannica

Schmidt and Frank (2018) posed the 'Silurian hypothesis': if evidence of a previous industrialised society exists beneath our feet, do we have the tools to detect it?