GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

If the Earth is 4.6 Ga, how much of Earth's history is represented by the Hadean and Archean Eons?

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U.S.G.S. GEOLOGIC TIME CHART

Phanerozoic Eon (544 million years ago to present)

Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to present)

Quaternary Period (1.8 million years ago to present)
Holocene Epoch (8,000 years ago to present)
Pleistocene Epoch (1.8 million to 8,000 years ago)
Tertiary Period (65 to 1.8 million years ago)
Pliocene Epoch (5.3 to 1.8 million years ago)
Miocene Epoch (23.8 to 5.3 million years ago)
Oligocene Epoch (33.7 to 23.8 million years ago)
Eocene Epoch (55.5 to 33.7 million years ago)
Paleocene Epoch (65 to 55.5 million years ago)

Mesozoic Era (248 to 65 million years ago)

Cretaceous Period (145 to 65 million years ago)
Jurassic Period (213 to 145 million years ago)
Triassic Period (248 to 213 million years ago)

Paleozoic Era (544 to 248 million years ago)

Permian Period (286 to 248 million years ago)
Carboniferous Period (360 to 286 million years ago)
Pennsylvanian Period (325 to 286 million years ago)
Mississippian Period (360 to 325 million years ago)
Devonian Period (410 to 360 million years ago)
Silurian Period (440 to 410 million years ago)
Ordovician Period (505 to 440 million years ago)
Cambrian Period (544 to 505 million years ago)

Precambrian Time (4500 to 544 million years ago)

Proterozoic Eon (2500 to 544 million years ago)

Vendian Period (544 to 650 million years ago)

Archaean Eon (3900 to 2500 million years ago)

Hadean Eon (4500 to 3900 million years ago)

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Other Timelines:

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/geo_timeline.html

http://www.zoomschool.com/subjects/Geologictime.html

 

 

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