HISTORY OF

LA TIERRA

THE EARTH
GROUP 1
Earth is an active place. The Earth’s history is
recorded in the rocks of the crust. Earthquakes
rip along plate boundaries, volcanoes spew
fountains of molten lava, and mountain ranges
and seabed are constantly created and
destroyed. Earth scientists have long been
concerned with deciphering the history – and
predicting the future – of this active planet. Over
the past four decades, Earth scientists have made
great strides in understanding Earth’s working.
Scientists also used an assumption called
uniformitarianism in order to relate what we
know about present day processes to past
events – the present is the key to the past.
Uniformitarianism states that the natural laws
we know today have been constant over the
geologic past.
The Geological Time Scale
The ideas of superposition and
evolution provide the basis of the
geological time scale, which was
developed in a somewhat random
fashion (mostly in Europe) during
the 19th century. The geologic time
scale is a system of chronological
dating that relates geological strata
to time. It is used by geologists,
paleontologists and other Earth
scientists to describe the timing and
relationships of events that have
occurred during Earth’s history.
Geologic Time Scale
The geological time scale divides the history
of Earth into eons, eras, periods and epochs.

Periods
Eons Eras &
Epochs
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