The Geological Time Scale is a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time and use by geologists, palaeontologists and other Earth Scientists to describe the timing and ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites, or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Meghalayan age ...

What are some events that all of us have had in our lives? Ask the class "What are some events that all of us have had in our lives?" Make a list of 5 or 6 things on the board. Let’s organize these!

Reston, VA – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Association of American State Geologists (AASG) announced that they have developed an updated geologic time scale and color scheme for use in ...

The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age, newly-ratified as the most recent unit of the Geologic Time Scale, began at the time when agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt and critical ...

Biologists have their principles of evolution, physicists have their laws of thermodynamics and chemists have their periodic table. For geologists, perhaps the most hallowed reference source is the ...

Our planet is more than four billion years old – a staggering amount of time for humans to contemplate. To ease this task, experts have divided earth’s history into pieces of time, called aeons, eras, ...

Time -- or at least how we think of time -- can be complicated and very different depending on how you use it. The way Earth scientists can be very odd when seen from the outside. It is common to hear ...

Nature, 184, 1310 (Oct. 24, 1959). Kulp, J. L., Program 1959 Annual Meeting, Geol. Soc. America (Nov. 2, 1959). Holmes, A. (personal communication, Oct. 6, 1959 ...

Geologists may have voted down formal recognition of the Anthropocene as a geological epoch, but we still need to act to prevent ecological crisis. A view of the glaciers as polar bears, one of the ...