According to the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the professional organization in charge of defining Earth’s time scale, we are officially in the Holocene (“entirely recent ...

There are three general approaches that allow scientists to date geological materials and answer ... Relative dating puts geologic events in chronological order without requiring that a specific ...

Professor Haughton's method of ascertaining the limit of geological periods is based on the disturbances which have taken place of the axis of the earth's figure. There was no continent whose ...