Luis Miguel Dalangin S12-02

A B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F
In it's 5.54 Billion years of existence, The
Earth has gone through many different
eons and eras. Each just as interesting as
the last. Here is a brief overview:

THE
Precambrean
Eon
4600-4000 MYA
EARTH Hadean Era:
- Birth and formation of the
4000-2500 MYA Earth
Archean Era:
Formation of the first Oceans - 2500-542 MYA
First appearance of DNA - Proterozoic Era:
Tectonic Activity begins - - Oxygen crisis
First Continents appear - - First Eukaryotes appear
Prokaryotic Bacteria appear - - Snowball Earth
Iron starts to form - - Multicellular Life appears
Oxygen begins to fill the - - Ozone stabilization
atmosphere

Phanerozioc
Eon
542-251 MYA
Paleozoic Era:
Cambrian explosion -
Invertebrates dominate -
the ocean
Fish begin to populate -
the oceans
Fungi start to spread -
Plants begin to appear on -
land 
Amphibians first walk on land - 251-65 MYA
Insects start to develop - Mesozoic Era:
Coal deposits begin to form - - Age of Reptiles
Great Extinction - - Time of Pangea
Supercontinent
- Conifers dominated the
landscape
- Age of Dinosaurs
- Birds begin to develop
- Small Mammals begin to
appear
- Flowering plants start to
spread
65 MYA - NOW
Cenozoic Era:
Extinction of the Dinosuars -
Mammals begin to dominate -
the earth
Primates begin to develop -
Grass starts to spread -
The Continents move to -
where they are today 
Apes develop from the early -
primates
Primates begin the stone age -
Homo Sapiens develop -
Further Human Evolution -
leads to Modern Time