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Order of geological time periods

 

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    • Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Recent

Variation:

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    • Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene

Explanation: Order of geological time periods

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Comments

  1. debjyoti ghosh says
    June 3, 2014 at 5:31 am

    it was great…keep it on…

    Reply
  2. Greg Gall says
    September 19, 2014 at 2:21 pm

    2nd year geology student, so i found this useful.

    Reply
  3. pat delaney says
    February 6, 2015 at 2:36 pm

    This is wrong, in Geochronology paleocene, eocene,oligocene myocene ,pliocene are NOT periods but Epochs. The period list also should have included Paleogene and Neogene (old Tertiary period) and Quarternary period. The epoch table should have included the Holocene Epoch, which followed the Pleisticene. Sequence is
    Eons-eras-periods epochs-ages

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  4. peter imoh says
    October 11, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    i find this useful as a first year geophysicist

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