GEOLOGIC

TIME
SCALE
 THE GTS
• It was first created to distinguish Earth's history in a
systematic manner. The GTS was first established by
western geologists in the 19th century using only the
principles of relative dating.
• This time scale subdivides the 4.55-billion year history of
the Earth into different clusters and classification to provide
a more detailed manner in understanding the events that
happened in the geologic past.
 1 Eon

The gts is 2 Era

subdivided
into the
following: 3 Period

4 Epoch
MAJOR
GEOLOGICAL
AND
BIOLOGICAL
EVENTS
4.55 Billion years ago
(Hadean eon)
4.0 - 3.50 Billion years
ago (ARCHean eon)
4.0 - 3.50 Billion years
ago (ARCHean eon)

APPEARANCE OF FIRST SINGLE-

CELLED ORGANISM
3.0 Billion years ago
(ARCHean eon)

first evidence of plate

tectonics
1.0 Billion years ago
(proterozoic eon)

appearance of first multi-

cellular organisms
850 - 635 million years
ago (proterozoic eon)

snowball earth
535 million years ago
(cambrian period)

cambrian explosion
kabuto
 kabutops eurypterid

kabuto trilobite
anorith
 armaldo anomalocaris
anorith
lileep
 cradily crinoids

lileep
 460 - 430 million years
ago (ordovician - silurian
period)

ordovician mass
extinction due to global
glaciation
375 million years ago
(devonian period)

appearance of early
amphibian ancestors, the
tiktaalik
 320 million years ago
(carboniferous period)

domination of reptiles
 300 million years ago
(carboniferous period)

formation of pangaea and

panthalassa
252 million years ago
(permian period)

permian extinction, also

known as "the great
dying"
220 million years ago
(triassic period)

appearance of the first

mammals
201 million years ago
(triassic period)

triassic-jurassic
extinction
omanyte
 omastar ammonite

omanyte
160 million years ago
(jurassic period)

appearance of the first

birds, archaeopteryx
aerodactyl
 pterosaur
aerodactyl
archaeops
 archaeops
archaeopteryx

archen
tyrunt
tytantrum tyrannosaurus
rex

tyrunt
tirtouga
 carracosta archelon

tirtouga
shieldon
 bastiodon

shieldon chasmosaurus
65 million years ago
(cretaceous period)

Cretaceous-TERTIARY(k-t)
extinction, "the dinosaur
extinction"
mamoswine
mamoswine

Wooly mammoth
60 - 55 million years ago
(cenozoic era)

appearance of first
primates
summary

The Geologic Time Scale (GTS) was

created to present Earth's history in a
subdivided format.

Its main subdivisions are the eon, era,

period, and epoch.

Its subdivisions are based on the events

that occurred during the time period
(major extinctions, major geological
events, etc.)
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