Crystallization, erosion, sedimentation, metamorphosis, and melting are planetary cosmological processes of the deep geological time that form the environment and create and change the rocks - entities seemingly so stable yet fluid. The identity of the stone is altered in the rock cycle. Crystallization occurs when the atoms of hot magma crystallize in cooling into a crystalline grid until magmatic rock emerges. Rocks are then transported on Earth by erosion - by wind, water streams, and animal activity. Throughout, the stones are crushed to sediment. Sedimentation is a process of compaction - compression, and lithification - the sediment accumulates into assemblages. Sedimentary rocks are metamorphosed by pressure and heat in the Earth's crust and eventually melt back to magma. These processes lasting for more than a million years also emphasize the new time narrative, called in reference to David Abram, the more-than-human time.
The time of the existing narrative has only one direction - forward - as the vision of progress and modernization. This conception of linear time has an immediate effect on the idea of human exceptionalism. Beyond this narrow field of view, we can notice the abundance of other temporal rhythms - seasonal pulse growth, reproduction cycles, rapid propagation of light, or the deep time of rock formation.
Every organism, every cell, every atom has its own time system. As Anna Tsing entitle - the polyphonic assemblages. Time systems happen simultaneously, sometimes in synchronicity, sometimes in desynchronization. Everything is in constant flux and transformation. There is no action but only intra-action (Karen Barad). Time, space, matter, and meaning are iteratively constituted within each intra-action. It is impossible to distinguish between creation and reconstruction, beginning and recurrence, continuity and discontinuity, here and there, past and future. The basis is intra-action.
The more-than-human time narrative is crystalline, emergent through every entity. It is intra-actively organized by the whole micro-macro scale, and therefore, we can say it erodes - it is shaped by external conditions. Time accelerates and slows down, cycles and sediments. It sediments in something we label as time by which it is perceptible. All of these qualities also emphasize his metamorphic and melted character.