This involves creating timelines of geological events and understanding the sequence of changes. Middle School (6-8) MS-ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata ...

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.

Currently, we’re in the Holocene epoch of the geological time scale, which started about 11,700 years ago. However, ...

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 ...

Crawford Lake, a small body of water in Ontario, Canada, is being put forward as the location that best records humanity's impacts on Earth. Scientists are trying to define a new geological time ...