Flood Basalt

Geologic Reset

...they come in waves, each subsequent eruption spreading further than the last until continents are reshaped; buried under unceasing lava flows.

Time cares not about what or who brings about change; those forces will inevitably fall out of living, and forgotten memory. Time marches on ceaselessly. It is in the nature of things to be forgotten, as something must have been to leave a wake through the stream.

But the water has moved on...