I like to use a meter stick and be very intentional with my spacing to model time as a scale. I also avoid using the far right ... to sort events in the order they have happened. Show the geologic ...

“All these lines of evidence indicate that the Anthropocene, though currently brief, is … of sufficient scale and importance to be represented on the geologic time scale,” Leicester ...

Yet not all scientists are convinced that the Anthropocene belongs on the geologic time scale. All other epochs have been named millennia after they occurred. They are defined not by instrumental ...

A panel of experts has spent more than a decade deliberating on how, and whether, to mark a momentous new epoch in geologic ... time unit, one characterized by human-induced, planetary-scale ...

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 ...

Mass extinctions are evolutionary turning points — brief moments on a geologic time scale that drastically change the course of life on earth. One moment in particular stands out. The Permian-Triassic ...

According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale ... you start naming geologic-time terms, you need ...

We will provide a list of web sites with relevant information. The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our activities, and the time scale for download above, ...