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 ...

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, ...

Researchers from Canada and France suggest that the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt (NGB), a rock formation located in ...

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.

So much so, in fact, that it has become widely accepted that the Anthropocene – the geological epoch dominated by human activity – is already set in stone on the geological time scale ...

Earth’s surface is the “living skin” of our planet—it connects the physical, chemical, and biological systems. Over geological time, landscapes change as this surface evolves, regulating the carbon ...

Many of the slices of the Geologic Time Scale are divided by when big events cause big changes and there are a significant number of Earth scientists that say that the rise of human civilization is ...

The geologic time scale divides Earth’s 4.6 billion-year story into grandly named chapters. Like nesting dolls, the chapters contain sub-chapters, which themselves contain sub-sub-chapters.

The Anthropocene issue has polarized scientists in a way that few issues in the history of the geological time scale ever have. The scale divides Earth’s past into chapters, many of which ...