Thus, Laskar et al.’s work has contributed to the definition of the new Geological Time Scale that has been adopted by the International Commission of Stratigraphy (ICS) and the International ...

However, not everyone agrees the Anthropocene is a geological reality — or that researchers have enough evidence to formally declare it a new epoch. The geologic time scale provides the official ...

For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. "While it may ...

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, ...

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, goes the old proverb. And that was true for one of history's greatest scientists. In 1831, Charles R. Darwin joined a life-changing ...

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 ...