All photography is about time.Time that is captured in a fraction of a second and once the latent image is developed in chemistry or processed by an in-camera chip, it is a matter of history.
Recently, I ventured along the cliffs at Easton Bavents at beach level. I was aware of sacrifical erosion along our Suffolk coast but these cliffs are on the backside of Southwold, and not somewhere I had explored on foot before. For me there is a South and North end where many places have a West and East end. The North of Southwold is the equivalent of the East in my opiniion.
The cliffs here were once at least a mile from the sea and represent a timeline in strata of 2.4 million years. Dynasties of Canutes have slowly retreated inland as the North Sea relentlessly erodes the soft sands of what was prehistoric Britain.
They are reputedly fossilrich so imagine how pleased I was to discover a Whitbread fossil at around the 2.2 Million year strata.

or better still, the discovery of gold in the eroding cliffs.