ABSTRACT
Chapter 2, The Nature of Geography—Geological Time, draws on a geological understanding of the Earth as Formations, Ruptures and Separations. The chapter explores how invention, the designing of tools and imagination ushered in the beginnings of humanity’s ground-shaping activity. Exploring geography and human evolution, the chapter also reviews the transformation in human connectedness, shifting its relational character from direct to indirect. The invention of tools served to separate humans from their environment(s), challenging previous evolutionary processes in both time and impact on terrain, topography and geography.
