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⌛ Earth's deep time may be... fractal

Geological time, generally considered as a system of eras, periods and epochs materialized in rock strata, might actually follow a simple and unifying model. Indeed, a new study led by ...
Purdue University

Geologic Time Scale

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!
insider.si.edu

The geologic time scale 2012 / editors, Felix M. Gradstein ... [et al.] ; [contributors, F. M. Gradstein ... [et al.]]

NH copy Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. V. 1. The chronostratigraphic scale / F.M. Gradstein and J.G. Ogg -- Biochronology / F.M. Gradstein -- Cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology / L.A. Hinnov ...
PBS

Our new geological epoch is defined by human activity. This Canadian lake maps its start

Are we really living in the Anthropocene, the geological time marked by the global impact of human activity? And if so, when did it begin? These are questions that the Anthropocene Working Group is ...
Salon

Have humans triggered a new geologic era? Geologists disagree if the Anthropocene exists or not

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...