Reserachers tackle the hot topic of whether to define a new 'Anthropocene' epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale. In the March-April issue of GSA Today, Stanley Finney (California State ...

Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites, or other enigmatic animals unlike anything in our modern world. Labels like ...

The Geologic Time Scale 2012, or GTS2012, is the latest understanding of Earth's history, and the means by which geoscientists around the world investigate the rock record. A Boise State University ...

For almost 30 years, we geologists have been having a debate about what Geologic Epoch we find ourselves in right now. It is presently called the Holocene, but some want to add another epoch and call ...

Introduction / F.M. Gradstein -- Chronostratigraphy : linking time and rock / F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg and A.G. Smith -- Biostratigraphy : time scales from graphic ...

Steve Petsch receives funding from National Science Foundation. Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other ...

The CU Museum is closed until January 8, 2026. During this time, collection visits will be available by appointment and other special access requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please ...

Humans have walked the Earth for 190,000 years, a mere blip in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history. A lot has happened in that time. Earth formed and oxygen levels rose in the foundational years of the ...

For something that is supposed to keep track of 4 billion years of history, the geologic time scale is quite a fuzzy and slippery yardstick. After two centuries of careful research and argumentation, ...