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Fossils Geologic Time Scale

The document is a geological time scale that lists the major periods and epochs of Earth's history from the present day back to the Hadean Eon. It shows that the current epoch is the Holocene within the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era. Moving back in time, it lists the major periods and their durations in millions of years ago from the Cenozoic to the Precambrian, and notes the Hadean Eon occurred between 4-4.4 billion years ago.

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Fossils Geologic Time Scale

The document is a geological time scale that lists the major periods and epochs of Earth's history from the present day back to the Hadean Eon. It shows that the current epoch is the Holocene within the Quaternary period of the Cenozoic era. Moving back in time, it lists the major periods and their durations in millions of years ago from the Cenozoic to the Precambrian, and notes the Hadean Eon occurred between 4-4.4 billion years ago.

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Science Olympiad

Geological Time Scale 2018


CENOZOIC MESOZOIC PALEOZOIC PRECAMBRIAN
Period Epoch Age (Ma) Period Epoch Age (Ma) Period Epoch Age (Ma) Eon Age (Ma)

Upper

Permian
259.1

Holocene Upper Middle

Cretaceous
Quaternary

273.0

Lower
0.012 100.5 298.9
Upper PROTEROZOIC

Pennsylvanian
307.0

Carboniferous
Pleistocene Lower Middle
315.2
Lower
2.6 145.0 323.2
Upper

Mississippian
330.9 2500
Pliocene Upper Middle
346.7
Neogene

Lower
5.3 163.5 358.9
Upper

Devonian
Jurassic

382.7
Miocene Middle Middle ARCHEAN
393.3
Lower
23.0 174.1 419.2
Pridoli

Silurian
423.0
Ludlow
Oligocene Lower
Tertiary

427.4
Wenlock 433.4
4000
201.3
Llandovery 443.8
33.9

Upper
Upper Ordovician
Paleogene

458.4

Eocene Middle
470.0

Lower
Triassic

56.0 Middle 237 485.4 HADEAN


Paleocene Furongian
Cambrian

497
Epoch 3
247.2 509
Lower Epoch 2
521
Terreneuvian
66.0 251.9 541.0
Modified from the following: GSA Geologic Time Scale v. 5.0 and International Chronostratigraphic Chart v. 2018/08
References:
Walker, J.D., Geissman, J.W., Bowring, S.A., and Babcock, L.E., compilers. 2018. Geologic Time Scale v. 5.0: Geological Society of America.
https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/Education_Careers/Geologic_Time_Scale/GSA/timescale/home.aspx (visited: 2018/08/15)
Cohen, K.M., Harper, D.A.T., Gibbard, P.L. 2018. ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart 2018/08. International Commission on
Stratigraphy, IUGS. www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale (visited: 2018/08/15)

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