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Chronostrat Chart 2012
Chronostrat Chart 2012
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Eo no t Er hem ath / em Eon Sy /E s te ra m /P eri od Eo no t Er hem ath / em Eon Sy /E s te ra m /P eri od Eo no t Er hem ath / em Eon Sy ste / Era m /P eri od
GSSP
Series / Epoch
Stage / Age
Series / Epoch
Stage / Age
Series / Epoch
Stage / Age
Quaternary
Holocene Pleistocene Upper Middle Calabrian Gelasian Piacenzian Zanclean Messinian Tortonian Miocene Serravallian Langhian Burdigalian Aquitanian Chattian Oligocene Rupelian
Famennian Upper
372.2 1.6
Devonian
Jurassic
Pliocene
Middle
Proterozoic
163.5 1.0 166.1 1.2 168.3 1.3 170.3 1.4 174.1 1.0 182.7 0.7
Frasnian
382.7 1.6 387.7 0.8 393.3 1.2
Stenian Mesoproterozoic
1200
Ectasian
1400
Cenozoic Neogene
Calymmian
1600
Mesozoic
Lower
Pliensbachian
190.8 1.0
Statherian
1800
Precambrian
Paleoproterozoic
Orosirian
2050
Pridoli
Rhyacian
2300
Triassic
28.1 33.9
Upper
Norian
~ 228
Silurian
Paleogene
Phanerozoic
Phanerozoic
Ladinian Anisian Olenekian Induan Changhsingian Wuchiapingian Capitanian Wordian Roadian Kungurian
~ 242 247.2 251.2 252.2 0.5 254.2 0.1 259.9 0.4 265.1 0.4 268.8 0.5 272.3 0.5
Archean
Carnian
~ 235
423.0 2.3 425.6 0.9 427.4 0.5 430.5 0.7 433.4 0.8 438.5 1.1 440.8 1.2 443.4 1.5 445.2 1.4 453.0 0.7
Upper
Paleoarchean
3600
Sandbian
458.4 0.9
Eoarchean
4000
Middle
Permian
Guadalupian
Hadean
~ 4600 Units of all ranks are in the process of being defined by Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Points (GSSP) for their lower boundaries, including those of the Archean and Proterozoic, long defined by Global Standard Stratigraphic Ages (GSSA). Charts and detailed information on ratified GSSPs are available at the website http://www.stratigraphy.org Numerical ages are subject to revision and do not define units in the Phanerozoic and the Ediacaran; only GSSPs do. For boundaries in the Phanerozoic without ratified GSSPs or without constrained numerical ages, an approximate numerical age (~) is provided. Numerical ages for all systems except Triassic, Cretaceous and Precambrian are taken from A Geologic Time Scale 2012 by Gradstein et al. (2012); those for the Triassic and Cretaceous were provided by the relevant ICS subcommissions.
Lower
279.3 0.6 290.1 0.1
Tremadocian
485.4 1.9
Cisuralian
Artinskian Sakmarian
295.5 0.4 298.9 0.2
Stage 10
Paleozoic
89.8 0.3
Furongian
Mesozoic Cretaceous
Cenomanian
100.5
Mississippian Pennsylvanian
Albian
~ 113.0
Carboniferous
Cambrian
303.7 0.1 307.0 0.1 315.2 0.2 323.2 0.4 330.9 0.2
Series 3
Aptian
~ 125.0
Lower
Stage 2
346.7 0.4
Coloring follows the Commission for the Geological Map of the World. http://www.ccgm.org Chart drafted by K.M. Cohen, S. Finney, P.L. Gibbard (c) International Commission on Stratigraphy, August 2012
Terreneuvian Fortunian
~ 529
Berriasian
Tournaisian
358.9 0.4
~ 145.0
541.0 1.0