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4500 BCE
Formation of Earth
Comets were forming Earth, Earth was molten. -
4400 BCE
Earth starts to cool & solidify
Earth begins to cool and solidify, water is beginning to form on surface. -
4000 BCE
Water World
Earth is covered 90% in water, ocean is green -
3400 BCE
Granite Planet
Oceans dominate Earth, continents begin to form, granite appears -
1500 BCE
Blue Planet
Planet is blue, continents are moving -
1000 BCE
Rodinia
Rodinia is formed -
700 BCE
Snowball Earth
Earth is covered in ice -
650 BCE
Eruptions
Volcanic eruptions are breaking Rodinia apart -
550 BCE
Cambrian
Ice melts, Rodinia is broken part, Ozone begins to form -
485 BCE
Ordovician
Earth was warm, massives glaciers form, sea levels drop. -
443 BCE
Silurian
Warm and stable climate, 600+ species -
400 BCE
Devonian
Ozone fully formed, very warm climate, high sea levels -
358 BCE
Carboniferous
Animals able to come onto land, Pangaea forming tropical swamps -
298 BCE
Permian
Pangaea is fully formed -
251 BCE
Mass Extinction
Volcanic eruptions wipe out 95% of species -
251 BCE
Triassic
Dinosaurs evolve -
201 BCE
Jurassic
Dinosaurs dominate Earth -
145 BCE
Cretaceous
Pangaea is broken apart, diamonds come to surface, dinosaurs rule -
65 BCE
Mass Extinction 2
Dinosaurs are wiped out by major meteor as well as 75% of species on Earth -
65 BCE
Tertiary
Mammals evolve, flowering plants, moist climate -
6 BCE
Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon fully forms -
2 BCE
Quaternary
2.6 mya to present day, humans dominate, climate change
