Geologic Time Scale Eons

Nicolas steno Eras

Giovanni Arduino Periods
William Smith Epochs
Ages

Hadean Eon (4.6 – 4 billion years ago)

- Earth was formed (“Theia”)
Archean Eon (4 – 2.5 billion years ago)
- First form of life
- Cyanobacteria
Phanerzoic Eon (54 million years ago – present)
- Paleozoic Era ( 541-252 million years ago)
- Life formed on seas
- Supercontinent
- Great Dying
- Mesozoic Era (252 -66 million years ago)
- Age of reptile, dinasaurs
- End on Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction
- Cenozoic Era ( 66 million years ago – present)
- Sahelanthropus ( 7 million years ago)
- Ice Age (2.6 million years ago)
Plate Tectonics – moving of plates to lithosphere on the center of Earth
Alfred Wegener
1-2 inches/year
-Pangea (22.5 million years ago)
-Continental Drift
Harry Hess
-seafloor spreading
Subduction zone
- volcanoes usually found
- dense ocean plates converge with a lighter contimental plate
Compositional layers of the earth
- crust
- mantle
- outer core
- inner core
Mechanical layers of the earth Convergent
- Lithosphere Divergent
- Asthenosphere Transform
- Mesosphere

Rock Cycle
- Transition through geologic time among three rock types
 IGNEOUS, SEDIMENTARY, METAMORPHIC rocks.
Igneous Rock
- From Latin word Ignis meaning fire
- a.k.a magmatic rock
- form through cooling and solidification of magma or lava
Types:
Intrusive igneous rock & extrusive igneous rock
Sedimentary Rock
- formed by the accumulation or deposition of small particles on the floor of oceans
- sedimentation
- weathering
- erosion
Metamorphic Rock
- arise from the transformation of existing rock types
- contact methamorphism
- regional methamorphism