Question

For a sun-worshipping South Indian like myself, two weeks in a place where 90 per cent of the Earth's total ice volumes are stored is a chilling prospect (not just for circulatory and metabolic functions, but also for the imagination). It's like walking into a giant ping-pong ball devoid of any human markers — no trees, billboards, buildings. You lose all earthly sense of perspective and time here. The visual scale ranges from the microscopic to the mighty: midges and mites to blue whales and icebergs as big as countries (the largest recorded was the size of Belgium). Days go on and on and on in surreal 24-houraustral summer light, and a ubiquitous silence, interrupted only by the occasional avalanche or calving ice sheet, consecrates the place. It's an immersion that will force you to place yourself in the context of the earth's geological history. And for humans, the prognosis isn't good.

Read the line: 'It's an immersion that will force you to place yourself in the context of the earth's geological history'. What does 'earth's geological history' mean here?

पर्याय

• Records of actions that took place below the earth's crust.

• A file of the system of management of the earth's layers.

• Major events that occurred in the Earth's past based on a geological time scale.

• Chronological order of events of the Earth's crust.

Answer 1

Major events that occurred in the Earth's past based on a geological time scale.

Explanation:

It indicates that the geological history of Earth is based on the geologic time scale, a method of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock layers, and it tracks the important events in Earth's past.