Geologic Time Scale

  • 4500 BCE

    Fire Earth

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

    Earth Starts To Chill

    Earth Starts To Chill
    Earth begins to cool and rock begins to solidify.
  • 4000 BCE

    Venusian Earth

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

    Granite Appears

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

    Granite Continents

    Granite Continents
    Granite is being to form large noticeable landmasses
  • 1500 BCE

    Tectonic Activity Begins

    Tectonic Activity Begins
    Plate activity starts and plates being to move
  • 1000 BCE

    Rodinia

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

    Snowball

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

    Volcanism Destroys

    Volcanism Destroys
    The first extinction event wipes out 75% of earth's population
  • 541 BCE

    Cambrian/Paleozoic

    Cambrian/Paleozoic
    First Intelligent Life
  • 485 BCE

    Ordovician Period

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

    Silurian Period

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

    Devonian Period

    Devonian Period
    LIfe spreads to dry land.
  • 358 BCE

    Carboniferous Period

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

    Permian Period

    Permian Period
    Welp everything died due to gas emissions from volcanic activity.
  • 251 BCE

    Mesozoic Era

    Mesozoic Era
    Reptiles arrive beginning of the dinosaurs
  • 201 BCE

    Jurassic Period

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

    Cretaceous Period

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

    Cenozoic Period

    Cenozoic Period
    This period means new life like new larger mammals.
  • 6 BCE

    The Grand Cannon

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

    Quaternary Period

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