Time

Geological
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The Sun formed within a cloud

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of atomic star dust such as this.

Gravity caused dust and gases
at the center of the cloud to fuse.

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The young star emitted radiation
and heat.
Remember to!
Around the Sun, gravity caused

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particles to unite and form
planets meteors, and other solar
This photo of the Eagle Nebula gives system objects. Collisions

insight into how the solar system formed
4.6 billion years ago. The blue shows
oxygen sulfur. The green shows nitrogen
and hydrogen.
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between these objects released
heat. It should be no surprise
that early Earth was a ball of hot

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There are no rocks to tell the story of ● How do you explain that
Earth's first 800 million years. there are no Earth rocks

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Meteorites tell what these rocks older than 3.8 billion years?
might have been like, however.
Meteorites contain the same star dust
Earth had not yet cooled, so no rocks
as the newly formed rocky planets
had solidified yet.

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did.
Older rock may have been destroyed
by plate tectonics or erosion.

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An Analogy for Geological
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Label the football field with significant events

Time in Earth's history.
It is hard to grasp the time scale of Earth's
geological history. One way is to make an
analogy-a comparison with something more

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relatable. Suppose Earth's history was laid out on a
football field. On one goal line would be Earth's
formation from a solar nebula. At the end of the
edge of the penalty box would be the formation of

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the earliest known rocks.
Just outside the penalty box would be fossil
evidence of the first living things. To view a
trilobite or ammonite, you would need to cross
midfield, into the other penalty box. To view

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today's animals and plants, you would need to be
within 1 meter of the goal line at the opposite end
of the field.
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The Eons
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● Scientist organize Earth's history into

four eons: the Hadean, the Archean, the
Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. An
eon is the largest division of geological

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time.
● The primarily defined divisions of time
are eons, the Hadean, the Archean, the

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Proterozoic and the Phanerozoic. The
first three of these can be referred to
collectively as the Precambrian
supereon.

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● Each eon is subsequently divided into
eras, which in turn are divided into
periods, which are further divided into
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● The Proterozoic eon was the longest

eon, lasting nearly 2 billion years.
From the Greek, protero means

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"first“, Zoic means Proterozoic is
notable for the increase in
multicellular life. At the end of this
eon, the first animals appeared in the

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fossil record. The first three eons are
grouped into a “super eon” called the
Precambriam.

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● The Phanerozoic is the most recent

eon, encompassing the time from the
beginning of the Paleozoic era until

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the present. This is the eon in which
trilobites and ammonites populated
the seas. It is the which tectonic
forces created and separated—the

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supercontinent Pangea. It is also the
eon in which Earth's life-forms
emerged from the ocean and became
visible on land. Phaneros, from

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ancient Greek means “visible”.
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The name “Hadean” comes from

Why is the Hadean eon not Hades, the ancient Greek god of the
studied by geologists? underworld due to the “hellish”

There were only a short period of era/time
during the Hadean eon when the
formation of rocks immediately
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conditions on Earth at the time: the
planet had just formed and was still
very hot due to high volcanism, a
partially molten surface and frequent

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discovered and here comes the next era/ collisions with other Solar System
time of period. bodies.

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• Why do you think that the

Questions: Phanerozoic eon is consider as the
● Enumerate the four eons on recent up to present era?
Because trilobites and ammonites

Earth’s history.
Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and
the Phanerozoic eon.
● Which of the eons where group as
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were populated the seas on that era .
It is the eon in which tectonic forces
created and separated—the
supercontinent Pangea. It is also the

Precambriam Supereon?
Hadean, Archean, and Proterozoic
eon.
● Which eon has the longest period
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eon in which Earth's life-forms
emerged from the ocean and became
visible on land.
• How will you define eons in your
words?

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of time? A unit of geological time equal to
Proterozoic eon one billion years.
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DATE: ● Suppose
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arranged on a yearly calendar.

● The Phanerozoic began with the Amphibians would not appear until the
Paleozoic era. Because the beginning of December. An amphibian
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Phanerozoic is the most recent eon of is a member of a class of animals that

geological time. It is also the best includes frogs, toads, newts, and
understood. It is the span of time in salamanders. Amphibians require both
which the major groups of plants and water and land habitats to survive. They

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animals emerged. Throughout much of are tetrapods. A tetrapod is a four-
the Phanerozoic, life thrived in the sea. footed animal.
Plants and animals did not colonize
land until late in this eon. In fact, most

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of the animals and plants you are
familiar with did not appear until
The Mandarin newt is an
relatively recently.
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amphibian that is native The Chinese giant

to China. salamander is the largest
amphibian in the world.
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Amphibia is a Greek word meaning
"having a double life." Frogs are a
common amphibian in wet areas. A
young frog, or tadpole, hatches from
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an egg and lives in the water. A
tadpole has gills. As an adult, the frog
moves onto land. It gets oxygen from
the air using lungs. It also breathes
through its skin. The frog's "double
life involves living in water and on
land.
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Reptiles, Birds,
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and Mammals
Other groups of tetrapods emerged
near the end of the Phanerozoic. In
addition to amphibians, reptiles were
among tetrapods.
A reptile is an animal class that
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includes snake, lizards, crocodiles,
turtles, and tortoises. Mammals and
birds are other animals that emerged
soon after reptiles. A mammal that
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has hair and a vertebrae animal that
has nourishes its young with milk.
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There have been at least five major ice

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ages, the most recent having peaked

only about 11,000 years ago. An ice
age is an episode in glaciers covered
large parts of Earth. Many large

mammal were extinct just before the
last ice age peaked. Saber-toothed
tigers and woolly mammoths were
among those mammals that
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 This illustration shows what woolly mammoths
might have looked like. Woolly mammoths
became extinct in the last Ice age. Woolly
mammoths wandered the planet for about 250,000
years and vanished from Siberia by about 10,000

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years ago.
disappeared forever. The warming of
the last ice age and the beginning
modern civilization seem to have
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happened long ago.

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Activity Time!
Name a reptile, mammal, and a bird
that lives in your region.
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Reptile:
Mammal:
Bird:

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