Geologic Events in a Century

  • 1 CE

    Hadean Event: Proto-Earth and Planetoid Theia Collide

  • 1 CE

    Origin of Earth

    Origin of Earth
  • 10

    Oldest Rocks

    Oldest Rocks
  • 17

    Earliest Chemical Evidence of Life

  • 17

    Archean Event: Oceans Cool & Form

  • 54

    First Eukaryotic Cells Appear

    First Eukaryotic Cells Appear
  • 60

    Free Oxygen in the Atmosphere

  • 69

    Formation of Early Rodinia

    Formation of Early Rodinia
  • 84

    Early Multicellular Organisms

    Early Multicellular Organisms
  • 84

    Proterozoic Event: Snowball Earth Hypothesis

    Proterozoic Event: Snowball Earth Hypothesis
  • 88

    Cambrian Explosion

    Cambrian Explosion
  • 88

    Early Shelled Organisms

    Early Shelled Organisms
  • 89

    Early Fish Appear

    Early Fish Appear
  • 90

    End-Ordovician Extinction

  • 91

    First Land Animals

    First Land Animals
  • 91

    Late Devonian Extinction

  • 91

    Acadian Orogeny

  • 93

    Final Assembly of Pangea

    Final Assembly of Pangea
  • 93

    Earliest Trees Appear + Formation of Coal Deposits

  • 94

    End-Permian Extinction

  • 95

    Dinosaurs Become Dominant

    Dinosaurs Become Dominant
  • 95

    End-Triassic Extinction

  • 95

    Mesozoic: Major Volcanic Eruptions

  • 96

    Earliest Angiosperms Appear

    Earliest Angiosperms Appear
  • 97

    Coniferous Plants are most abundant

    Coniferous Plants are most abundant
  • 98

    North America and Europe Separate

  • 98

    End-Cretaceous/ K-PG Extinction

    End-Cretaceous/ K-PG Extinction
  • 99

    Mammals + Flowering Plants Become Abundant

  • 99

    Great American Biotic Interchange

    Great American Biotic Interchange
  • 99

    First primate, genus Homo appears

    First primate, genus Homo appears
  • 99

    Beginning of Recorded Human History

  • 99

    My Birth Year (2001)

  • 99

    Modern Homo Sapiens Appear

  • 99

    Most Recent Ice Age Ends

    Most Recent Ice Age Ends