Mnemonic Device:
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Cows Often Sit Down Carefully. Perhaps, Their Joints Creak? Persistent, Early Oiling Might Prevent Painful Rheumatism.
- Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Recent
Variation:
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Clowns Only Shoot Ducks Carrying People That Just Can’t Play.
- Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleocene
Explanation: Order of geological time periods
it was great…keep it on…
2nd year geology student, so i found this useful.
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
i find this useful as a first year geophysicist