text: a fun geologic time question for geologists? imagine you are at the beach, and you are standing on the berm at the base of a 200 ft. cliff. there is a parent rock layer at your feet that extends about 30 ft. up the cliff , and on top of that parent rock is well-sorted, fine grained sand.not sandstone, but sand. the top 4 feet of sediment on the cliff is soil. what is missing from this picture-- there is time missing from this picture, what do you think happened? this beach is close to faultline and a plate boundary. weathering, mass wasting, and cliff erosion are obvious factors. sounds like global...whatever wants to make you sound stupid just because you just got out of some class.  global...whatever is stupid because he or she doesn't know the answer to this question only knows its something geological.  pardon my punctuation n' shit.