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The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating...177 KB (10,079 words) - 13:23, 22 April 2025
international updates in the International Geological Time Scale. Although the New Zealand geologic time scale has not been formally adopted, it has been...16 KB (757 words) - 03:30, 18 April 2025- time, or both A duration or quantity of time: Orders of magnitude (time) as a power of 10 in seconds; A specific unit of time Geological time scale,...1 KB (261 words) - 18:45, 12 December 2023
work has advocated using the lunar geological time scale to subdivide the Hadean eon of Earth's geologic time scale. In particular, it is sometimes found...13 KB (1,514 words) - 15:48, 1 April 2025- the climate record over geological time scales and latitudinal gradients in species diversity and numbers across geological time. Fischer was born at Rothenburg/Fulda...7 KB (857 words) - 19:16, 4 December 2024
- traditional three. The dates for each age can vary by region. On the geologic time scale, the Holocene epoch starts at the end of the last glacial period...30 KB (3,068 words) - 02:08, 21 April 2025
- Oxygen minimum zone (section In geological time scales)OMZs have changed over geological time scales. Throughout the history of Earth's oceans, OMZs have fluctuated on long time scales, becoming larger or smaller...29 KB (4,360 words) - 02:33, 9 September 2024
Engineering geology is the application of geological principles to engineering practice for the purpose of assuring that the geological factors affecting...87 KB (9,679 words) - 19:36, 4 April 2025- Precambrian (redirect from Precambrian Time)"Divisions of geologic time – major chronostratigraphic and geochronologic units", U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010–3059, United States Geological Survey...36 KB (3,793 words) - 06:53, 5 April 2025
Paleontology (category Historical geology)numerical methods can be used to establish time scales off of biostratigraphy and all are used to scale time geologically. Even the Ediacaran, which is poorly...100 KB (12,871 words) - 03:31, 21 April 2025
Earth's magnetic field (section Time dependence)near the geographic poles, they slowly and continuously move over geological time scales, but sufficiently slowly for ordinary compasses to remain useful...79 KB (8,967 words) - 02:25, 9 March 2025
the rocks. Over the course of time, rocks can be transformed from one type into another, as described by a geological model called the rock cycle. This...31 KB (3,312 words) - 00:52, 9 February 2025
W. Brian Harland (section Stratigraphy and Time Scales)producing 4 editions of the geological time scale in 1964, 1971, 1982 and 1989. He also edited the international Geological Magazine for 30 years. In 1968...32 KB (4,078 words) - 15:32, 17 December 2024- Primary rock (category Geology terminology)Described by Richard Owen The last two terms have survived on most geological time scales used in the 20th and 21st centuries. For an example of the extensive...4 KB (644 words) - 16:17, 20 January 2021
Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. Historical...14 KB (1,037 words) - 00:12, 19 March 2025
the location that spans many geological time units such as ages, epochs, or in some cases even multiple major geologic periods—for the particular geographic...9 KB (1,121 words) - 06:40, 12 February 2025
Pre-Noachian (category Geologic time scale of Mars)its geological features. However, understanding the Pre-Noachian period remains elusive, as it is the least comprehended among Mars' four geological epochs...16 KB (1,825 words) - 17:42, 1 April 2025
Quaternary (redirect from Quaternary (geology))and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as...20 KB (2,076 words) - 12:19, 23 January 2025- US Geological Survey. p. 148. doi:10.3133/pp1348. W. Harland; R. Armstrong; A. Cox; L. Craig; A. Smith; D. Smith (1990). A Geologic time scale 1989...9 KB (459 words) - 19:22, 31 March 2025
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (category Geologic time scales of Earth)stratigraphic section which defines the lower boundary of a stage on the geologic time scale. The effort to define GSSPs is conducted by the International Commission...19 KB (1,070 words) - 00:58, 21 December 2024