Geologic Time is a crucial concept to understanding the history of the earth—including the evolution of life. Many different representations of the timeline have been created, and many approaches ...

Geologic Time Scale Chronology is the science of organizing events in the order they happened in time. Introducing Timelines What are some events that all of us have had in our lives? Ask the class ...

Reserachers tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new 'Anthropocene' epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale.

A geologic time scale 2004 / edited by Felix M. Gradstein, James G. Ogg, and Alan G. Smith Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age, newly-ratified as the most recent unit of the Geologic Time Scale, began at the time when agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt and ...

Chart topper On the newly revised geologic time scale, the Holocene Epoch — a time period stretching from the end of the last Ice Age 11,700 years ago to today — is divided into three named ages.

The geologic time scale was not entirely intentional, at least at its start. In the early 1800s, geologists began to create maps and descriptions showing where different types of rocks occurred ...

It's official — you're living in a new age. It's called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale. The scale divides the history of the Earth ...

Geologists from the USGS, state geological surveys, academia and other organizations have sought a consistent time scale to be used in communicating the ages of geologic units in the United States.

The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, is the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock record.

The geological time scale helps us grapple with the vast swaths of time that life has existed on Earth, dividing it into eras, periods, and epochs.