Geological_time_spiral.png
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English:
A diagram of the geological time scale
Other languages:
Bahasa Indonesia
:
Diagram
skala waktu geologi
yang berbentuk spiral
Čeština
:
Schématické znázornění
geologické časové škály
Deutsch
:
Visuelle Darstellung der
Erdzeitalter
als Zeitspirale mit
englischer
Beschriftung
(eine deutsche Version der Grafik ist derzeit nicht vorhanden)
English
:
A diagram of the geological time scale
Español
:
Diagrama de la escala de tiempo geológica
Français
:
Diagramme de l'
échelle des temps géologiques
.
Italiano
:
Diagramma della
scala dei tempi geologici
.
Magyar
:
A
geológiai időskála
szemléltetése
Nederlands
:
Engelstalige visuele presentatie van de
geologische tijdschaal
in de vorm van een
spiraal
Polski
:
Diagram przedstawiający skalę czasu geologicznego.
Română
:
Diagramă a istoriei geologice a Pământului
Slovenščina
:
Diagram
geoloških dob
(napisi v angleščini)
Македонски
:
Приказ на геолошките периоди
मराठी
:
विविध भूशास्त्रीय काळ दाखवणारे चित्र
한국어
:
지질학적 연대표.
日本語
:
ら旋状の
地質学
年表
中文
:
地质学
时标图
中文(繁體)
:
地質學
時標圖
עברית
:
דיאגרמה של סקאלת זמן גיאולוגי
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Summary
Description Geological time spiral.png |
English:
A diagram of the geological time scale
Esperanto:
Diagramo montranta la
geologian temposkalon
Français :
Diagramme montrant l'échelle des temps géologiques.
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Date | September 2008 (Version 1.1) |
Source | Graham, Joseph, Newman, William, and Stacy, John, 2008, The geologic time spiral—A path to the past (ver. 1.1): U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 58, poster, 1 sheet. Available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2008/58/ |
Author | United States Geological Survey |
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Original source: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2008/58/geotimespiral_text.pdf
The Earth is very old—4.5 billion years or more according to scientific estimates. Most of the evidence for an ancient Earth is contained in the rocks that form the Earth's crust. The rock layers themselves—like pages in a long and complicated history—record the events of the past, and buried within them are the remains of life—the plants and animals that evolved from organic structures that existed 3 billion years ago.
Also contained in rocks once molten are radioactive elements whose isotopes provide Earth with an atomic clock. Within these rocks, "parent" isotopes decay at a predictable rate to form "daughter" isotopes. By determining the relative amounts of parent and daughter isotopes, the age of these rocks can be calculated. Thus, the scientific evidence from rock layers, from fossils, and from the ages of rocks as measured by atomic clocks attests to a very old Earth.
See USGS Fact Sheet 2007-3015 at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2007/3015/ for ages of geologic time periods. Ages in the spiral have been rounded from the age estimates in the Fact Sheet. B.Y., billion years; M.Y., million years. For more information, see the booklet on Geologic Time at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/geotime/ .
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