Geologic Time Scale

  • Fire Earth
    4500 BCE

    Fire Earth

    Earth is a ball of fire and molten lava being formed also is when the moon formed
  • Earth Starts To Chill
    4400 BCE

    Earth Starts To Chill

    Earth begins to cool and rock begins to solidify.
  • Venusian Earth
    4000 BCE

    Venusian Earth

    CO2 is being released into the atmosphere, and the avg, temp of the Earth's surface is 200 degrees fahrenheit
  • Granite Appears
    3400 BCE

    Granite Appears

    Granite is forced up from towards the core and begins to be seen on the surface
  • Granite Continents
    2500 BCE

    Granite Continents

    Granite is being to form large noticeable landmasses
  • Tectonic Activity Begins
    1500 BCE

    Tectonic Activity Begins

    Plate activity starts and plates being to move
  • Rodinia
    1000 BCE

    Rodinia

    The Rodinia Supercontinent is formed and is a a massive dessert like wasteland
  • Snowball
    700 BCE

    Snowball

    Earth becomes a snowball because rodinia block the flow of ocean currents freezing the earth
  • Volcanism Destroys
    650 BCE

    Volcanism Destroys

    The first extinction event wipes out 75% of earth's population
  • Cambrian/Paleozoic
    541 BCE

    Cambrian/Paleozoic

    First Intelligent Life
  • Ordovician Period
    485 BCE

    Ordovician Period

    Set a new template for life Isopods are very prevalent.
  • Silurian Period
    443 BCE

    Silurian Period

    Trilobites and Isopod rule and are chilling in the ocean
  • Devonian Period
    419 BCE

    Devonian Period

    LIfe spreads to dry land.
  • Carboniferous Period
    358 BCE

    Carboniferous Period

    Tree develop and evolve to have cones and bark
  • Permian Period
    298 BCE

    Permian Period

    Welp everything died due to gas emissions from volcanic activity.
  • Mesozoic Era
    251 BCE

    Mesozoic Era

    Reptiles arrive beginning of the dinosaurs
  • Jurassic Period
    201 BCE

    Jurassic Period

    The climax of the dinos and the start of the birds
  • Cretaceous Period
    145 BCE

    Cretaceous Period

    Filled with dinos, birds, and small mammals. The infamous asteroid that killed off the dinos ended this period
  • Cenozoic Period
    66 BCE

    Cenozoic Period

    This period means new life like new larger mammals.
  • The Grand Cannon
    6 BCE

    The Grand Cannon

    The tectonic activity that created the Grand Cannon happened at this time
  • Quaternary Period
    2 BCE

    Quaternary Period

    The Period where we as homosapians come about. Also there was an ice age during this period