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Geological Time Chart
Check out whats going on at the different times going back millions or billions of years in the time table below.
5 mya
22.5 mya
36 mya
54 mya
Mammals survive extinction
K-T Dinosaur Extinction
Phytoplankton in sea water (what oil comes from)
Rocky Mountains formation begins
141 mya Kimmeridgian extinction 60% of life wiped out.
Gondwana begins to break up
Pangaea breaks up / Gondwana reforms
Norian extinction
195 mya
Pangaea begins to break up
Dinosaur life begins
Gondwana hit by a moon killing 97% of life on earth
Trilobite life ends
Pangaea forms
290 mya
Appalachian Orogeny
323 mya
Alleghenian Orogeny
354 mya
Amphibian life begins
What if you lived in the Devonian time period
Fish life begins
417 mya
First land plant life
443 mya
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490 mya
Rodinia breaks up - Gondwana, Laurentia, Baltica, Kazakhstania, Siberia, China derived
Trilobite life starts
Oxygen crises. Oxygen kills living beings that had lived in acid.
650 mya
Total planet frozen
850 mya
1.o bya
Glenville Orogeny
Supercontinent Rodinia
1.6 bya
Kenoran Orogeny
End of intense meteroitic bombard
4.2 bya Possible origin of life alon midoceanic ridges
4.4 bya Earliest evidence of liquid water
4.5 bya Asteroid Orpheus Impacts ejects material to form moon
Holocene
Pliestocene
Pliocene
Miocene
Oligocene
Eocene
Paleocene
Late
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late
Middle
Early
Late(Upper)
Middle
Early(Lower)
Permian
Pennsylvanian
(Carboniferous
Coal Bearing)
Mississippian
(Carboniferous
Coal Bearing)
Devonian
Silurian
Ordivician
Cambrian
- - Tommotian
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Quarternary
Tertiary
References:
Homo Ergaster/Erectus: Down from the trees, The Human Jounrey, 2020
Homo sapiens, Wikipedia, 2020
Stearn, Colin & Carroll Robert, Paleontology: The Record of Life, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1989
Lisiecki and Raymo, Paleoceanography, vol. 20, PA 1003, 2005
Levin, Harold, The Earth Through Time, Eighth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2006