@Livingstones2020
I mentioned this location to people in new York, but it also exists in Pennsylvania as well. In Port Clinton Pennsylvania, Broad street in town crosses over a small river. And just to the south there is a train station. If you walk south just a few hundred feet, you will find the Appalachian trail entrance that takes you up a hill. And up on that trail and just to the south maybe a 5-10 minute walk on the Appalachian trail, you will find a structure similar to Hutton's unconformity described in the 1700s. This contact continues up through the tri-state area and the unconformity can be observed elsewhere as well, but you might be surprised at what you see, if you consider how it might have come to be.
And there are nice little placards around detailing the unconformity as well, so it's not particularly complicated for non-scientists.
It would be worth the trip for people who are truly interested in the subject.
We don't have to go far to find structures that place deep time on a pedestal for all to see.
In these structures we have an initial deposition of sedimentary layers. Sometimes sands, sometimes silts or muds. Life walks around making tracks, feeding traces, nests or burrows etc., demonstrating a passage of time at peace. This land lithifies and hardens through time, and is later tilted during tectonic uplift and orogenesis. Then once tilted into the sky, erosion from wind, water and ice, erode the tilted layers back down to grade. Later, new sediment is deposited and more trace fossils appear. The upper layers harden and capture the trace fossils in time and the layers tilt via orogenesis again.
If we come to an awareness that such structures are found throughout the entire geologic column, all throughout periods of the Paleozoic, mesozoic and cenozoic, we begin to understand that these structures are not the exception, but rather they are the normal and common default.
And this paints an image of deep time. Incredibly deep time, beyond anything that anyone had ever known prior to the 1700s.