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Latest revision as of 18:34, 14 March 2019
AAPG uses the International Chronostratigraphic Chart as its guide to formal chronostratigraphy.[1]
Simplified Chronostratigraphic Chart
Eonothem / Eon | Erathem / Era | System / Period | Series / Epoch |
---|---|---|---|
Phanerozoic | Cenozoic | Quartenary | Holocene |
Pleistocene | |||
Neogene | Pliocene | ||
Miocene | |||
Paleogene | Oligocene | ||
Eocene | |||
Paleocene | |||
Mesozoic | Cretaceous | Upper | |
Lower | |||
Jurassic | Upper | ||
Middle | |||
Lower | |||
Triassic | Upper | ||
Middle | |||
Lower | |||
Paleozoic | Permian | Lopingian | |
Guadalupian | |||
Cisuralian | |||
Carboniferous | Pennsylvanian | ||
Mississippian | |||
Devonian | Upper | ||
Middle | |||
Lower | |||
Silurian | Pridoli | ||
Ludlow | |||
Wenlock | |||
Landovery | |||
Ordovician | Upper | ||
Middle | |||
Lower | |||
Cambrian | Furongian | ||
Series 3 | |||
Series 2 | |||
Terrenuvian | |||
Precambrian | Proterozoic | Neo-proterozoic | Ediacaran |
Cryogenian | |||
Tonian | |||
Meso-proterozoic | Stenian | ||
Ectasian | |||
Calymmian | |||
Paleo-proterozoic | Statherian | ||
Orosirian | |||
Rhyacian | |||
Siderian | |||
Archean | Neoarchean | ||
Meso-archean | |||
Paleo-archean | |||
Eo-archean | |||
Hadean |
Anthropocene
The anthropocene is a newly coined and still debated term that is currently being used informally to denote the "human age."
References
- ↑ Cohen, K. M., S. C. Finney, P. L. Gibbard, and J.-X. Fan, 2013, The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart, Episodes, v. 36, no. 3, pp. 199-204.
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