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Geologic Time Scale

Also Known As Geological Time Scale

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The standardized division of geologic time into eons, eras, periods and epochs, combining chronostratigraphy, the study of rock sequences, with geochronology, the dating techniques that anchor them to real years. It is the chart this atlas's own era entities are drawn from, arranging the planet's 4.54 billion year history into categories a reader can hold in mind.

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Origin Year
1913 1
The relative scale was assembled across the nineteenth century; 1913 is Arthur Holmes' The Age of the Earth, the first geologic time scale anchored to radiometric dates.
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The relative ordering superposition provides is what the geologic time scale grew from.

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Radiometric ages are what give the geologic time scale its absolute dates.

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1. Geologic Time Scale (Wikipedia)
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The geologic time scale or geological time scale describes how geologic time is divided into standardised intervals.
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