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4600 BCE
Earth creation
In this period (Hadic) there is great volcanic activity, the moon was created and there were several meteorites. -
Period: 4600 BCE to 540 BCE
Precambrian
Geological events: The earth´s born and great volcanic activity . 1st ocean and 1st continent
Climate events: meteor shower and global glaciation -
4000 BCE
1st ocean
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3500 BCE
1st forms pf unicellular life
They appear in the Archaic period and therefore oxygen also appears, making it an oxidising atmosphere. -
2300 BCE
1st global ice age
Known as the Huronian, it was the longest ice age lasting approximately 300 million years. -
1100 BCE
1st continent
Its name was Rodinia and 800 million years ago it began to fracture. -
Period: 540 BCE to 255 BCE
Paleozoic
Geological event: Pangea 1 and Pangea 2. Two orogenies
Climate event: vulcanism and two glaciations -
500 BCE
1st most complex life forms
Trilobites predominate. Found in the Cambrian period -
480 BCE
Fish age
Appear in period ordovician -
440 BCE
Glaciation in North Africa
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428 BCE
1st terrestrial animals and plants
They appear in the Silurian period where there is also a mass extinction of living beings. -
365 BCE
Amphibian age
They appear in the Devorian period when animals and plants colonise the continents. -
350 BCE
1st land plants
There are large forests of primitive plants and gymnosperms. They appear in the carboniferous period -
320 BCE
Glaciation on the Gondwanan continents
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286 BCE
Reptile expansion
Appears in the Permian period when many species become extinct. -
270 BCE
age of reptiles
They appear in the carboniferous period -
Period: 255 BCE to 65 BCE
Mesozoic
Geological events: The actual continents appers.
Climate events: increase temperature and oxygen. There isn´t any glaciations. -
200 BCE
Peterosaurs, crocodiles and mammals
Appear in the period Triassic -
100 BCE
Echinoderm
They appear in the period Jurassic. -
66 BCE
1st angrosperma plats with flowers
They appear in the period Jurassic. -
65 BCE
Dinosaurs at their best time
Extinction by a meteorite that caused a massive wave that prevented the sun from reaching the earth. They appers in the Jurassic. -
Period: 65 BCE to 1 CE
Cenozoica
Geological events: falling sea levels, a glaciation and migration.
Climate events: increase temperature and CO2. -
40 BCE
First primates
Primates appeared in the period Paleogene -
40 BCE
1st primates
Appears in the period Paleogene -
12 BCE
1st homonids
Appears in the period Neogene -
1 CE
Homosapiens appers
Appears in the period Quaternary -
Climate change
It is human-caused and includes an increase in temperature and CO2.