The evolution of the human mind has allowed us to transcend our modern understandings of time and expand into the realm of “deep time thinking.” One example of this is the Geologic Time Scale ...

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, ...

Commenter SexyDinosaurCostume nominated the USGS visualization Geological Time Spiral, which traces out 4.5 billion years of history, giving us more detailed accounts of the periods nearest our own.

The geological time scale helps us grapple with the vast swaths of time that life has existed on Earth, dividing it into eras, periods, and epochs. With our illustrated version ...

The term has slowly picked up steam, both within the sciences (the International Commission on Stratigraphy, ultimate adjudicator of the geological time scale, is taking a formal interest) and beyond.

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 ...

The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age, newly-ratified as the most recent unit of the Geologic Time Scale, began at the time when agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt and ...

Geologists categorize time by looking at changes they see in the earth’s rock or sediment layers. Take the very dramatic example of the end of the Mesozoic era, when dinosaurs went extinct.

Even if the Anthropocene does not yet have an official place on the geologic time scale, the term will “continue to be used not only by earth and environmental scientists, but also by social ...