Understanding the geologic time scale and how to organize Earth’s history into a coherent timeline. MS-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, ...

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 and paleontologists have long defined the geological time scale primarily based on major disruptions to life on Earth. Eras, periods, and epochs, particularly their boundaries, were ...

It’s just as well conditions like this are not common, or 18th-century geologists might have never made sense of Earth's ...

In this illustrated interactive timeline, explore a brief history of life on Earth, from the earliest bacteria in the Precambrian Period, to the first modern humans.

MILLIONS of people can name a single geologic period, the Jurassic. Nit-pickers did argue that the famous film should have been called Cretaceous Park, resting their case on the identification of ...

Geologists categorize time by looking at changes they see in the earth’s rock or sediment layers. Take the very dramatic example of the end of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs went extinct.

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.

DG: I don’t know. To be honest, I haven’t been following this too closely. It’s really not that interesting to me whether or not it becomes formally adopted as part of the geological time scale.

Her story has a significance to our knowledge in Geography especially at A’ level when we begin studying the geological time scale. Un familiar terms in the time scale tease our minds.