Geologic Time Scale
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- What is Geologic Time Scale?
- It is the largest period of geologic time.
- The moment where life first created on the Earth, archaea, and bacteria.
- There were vast shallow epicontinental seas and rocks are less metamorphosed than in the Archean age.
- The geologic time scale is divided into three – Paleozoic (time of ancient life), the Mesozoic (time of middle life), and the Cenozoic (time of recent life).
- The period starts with the sudden appearance of fossilized evidence of several animal phyla; the evolution of those phyla into diverse forms; the emergence and development of complex plants; the evolution of fish; the emergence of insects and tetrapods; and the development of modern fauna.
- This period is where Dinosaurs and Other Organisms extinct.
- Unit of geological time during which a rock series is deposited.
- What happened during the Mesozoic Era?
- The time between Earth’s formation and the outset of the Paleozoic era are often collectively called the...
- This is the time where the Cambrian Explosion happened.
- It is one of the Six Major Periods of Paleozoic Era. Ordovician Period, it is known as...
- Mesozoic Era is also know as...
- One significant event in the development of organisms having the ability to secrete calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate for the formation of shells.
- What are the 2 major groups of reptiles that exist in the Permian Era?
- This period known as the “Age of Fishes”.
- What is the ocean that surrounded Pangea during Permian Period?
- Other than being called the Age of Mammals, the Cenozoic Era is also called as...
- It is called the Age of Fishes.
- What is the Silurian Period?
- The first geologic time scale that included absolute dates was published in 1913 by the British geologist...
- What are the periods of Mesozoic Era?
- Ordovician Period is when the vertebrates and the jawless fish known as... appeared.
- The first amphibians made their appearance, although able to live on land, they need to return to water to lay their eggs during the...
- This era is also brought about the advent of humans.
- How many periods does the Paleozoic Era have?
- Phanerozoic Eon starts from...
- It is the Beginning of Earth.
- It is the time where the Geologic Time Scale is developed.
