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 ...

Geologists measure time in eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages. They propose we have moved from the Holocene Epoch, which started about 11,700 years ago at the end of an ice age to the ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – An Idaho State University professor’s research is tackling one of the hottest debates in geology: Has human activity changed the planet enough to mark a new geologic ...

A Timescale is a scale used to represent periods of time. Option: Have students make a timeline of their lives in their notebooks. Have them include at least 3 events from the class list and at least ...

The Anthropocene (The Age of Humans) has been proposed as a new geological epoch after or within the Holocene, and, if formalized, would be the first to be introduced based on geologically observable ...

Scientists have identified the geological site that they say best reflects a proposed new epoch called the Anthropocene — a major step toward changing the official timeline of Earth’s history.

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

The geologic time scale divides Earth’s 4.6 billion-year story into grandly named chapters. Like nesting dolls, the chapters contain sub-chapters, which themselves contain sub-sub-chapters.

A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet. By Raymond Zhong The Triassic was ...