I like to use a meter stick and be very intentional with my spacing to model time as a scale. I also avoid using the far right ... to sort events in the order they have happened. Show the geologic ...

The geologic time scale provides the official framework for our understanding of Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history. Geologists break down our planet’s history into eons, eras, periods ...

The geologic time scale was not entirely intentional, at least at its start. In the early 1800s, geologists began to create maps and descriptions showing where different types of rocks occurred ...

Although those who study the branch of geology known as stratigraphy—the study of those strata and their resolution into Earth's vast geologic time scale—will continue to debate the idea of ...

On the newly revised geologic time scale, the Holocene Epoch — a time period stretching from the end of the last Ice Age 11,700 years ago to today — is divided into three named ages.

Even if the Anthropocene does not yet have an official place on the geologic time scale, the term will ... the system is not equipped to deal with looking at the present, nor with the rate ...

"There is no guarantee of the success of this process -- the Geological Time Scale is meant to be stable, and is not easily changed. Whatever decision is ultimately made, the geological reality of ...

For the last seven decades, Earth has been operating in unprecedented ways, leading many researchers to argue that we have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. "While it may ...