Let’s Walk 4.6 billion years in 4.6 kilometres.
Ice sheets a kilometre thick, Elephants in Britain, Mountains rising and crumbling, Seas advancing and retreating, Forests erased and reborn, Earth’s crust bending, breaking, and reforming, Climate swings wildly, Species rise and vanish, Britain is written, wiped clean, and written again.
And yet — life returns.
- Date: Saturday 27th June
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Where: Starting at Coed Parc y Van Car Park
- Concluding at Coed Y Werin Woodland
- Tea and coffee at the final destination
- BOOKING ESSENTIAL – cwtcoedywerin@gmail.com
Beneath your feet, in Coed y Werin lies our story 300 million years in the making, only 7% of Earth’s vast history. At Coed y Werin also known as Wern Ddu SSSI, the geology holds the memory of that change. Every rock, every layer, a page from Earth’s story.
Join us for a Deep Time Walk with Paul Graham of Awenra Pathways, taking in our SSSI and see how this woodland fits into this epic story of our planet.
This is a collaboration between Caerphilly Woodlands Trust and Awenra Pathways. @awenra_pathways
Join our guided walk through Earth’s 4.6 billion-year evolutionary history, over a distance of 4.6km, where each metre walked represent a billion years
Travel back in time to the start of our journey, beginning with the formation of the solar system. We’ll then go forwards in time stopping at various points along the way to listen to a narrative, exploring key events such as the formation of the Moon, the oceans, the origins of life, and mass extinction events such as that of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, right up to the present day.
This Deep Time Walk is an interactive way of grasping the vastness of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year history, highlighting how humans have evolved in the blink of a geological eye. It invites participants to view the world differently, explore our deep interrelationship with the more-than-human world, and encourage positive action to address the climate and nature emergencies.
