About 30 minutes for a thunderstorm convective cycle

This dimension groups physical processes by how fast or slow they act, from an instant event like an earthquake to something that takes eons. Wikipedia notes plainly that "the processes that result in plates and shape Earth's crust are called tectonics," a family of change that geologists measure across geological time rather than a human lifetime. Browsing by timescale separates sudden processes from ones that unfold over vast ages.