The next step to improve the Geological Time Scale is to provide an astronomical calibration of the Paleogene period that covers the past 23-65.5 Myr. This will require both an extension of ...
The Working Group on the 'Anthropocene' (AWG) will provide its summary of evidence and its provisional recommendations on a potential new geological time interval. The Working Group on the ...
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Hidden patterns in geological time revealed: Earth's variability saturates at a half-billion years, study finds
A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...
The numbers of animal and plant species extant on Earth have fluctuated dramatically through geological time. Animals and vascular plants were absent from the first three billion years of Earth ...
MODERN geological research has rendered it almost certain, that the same causes which produced the various formations with their imbedded fossils, have continued to act down to the present day. It has ...
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