Earth

north carolina geologic history

  • 120

    homosapians emerged

    homo sapiens emerged about 120million years ago
  • 200

    appilachians

    the appilachains were still eroding and its still wearing down
  • 251

    dinosaurs apperence

    dinosaurs appeared and became dominate
  • 320

    animals

    amphibians were comom and diverse the first reptiles apeared about 320 mya
  • 400

    old rock

    old rock
    the oldest rock found oearth was 4.4 billion years old
  • Feb 28, 1000

    first fossils

    first fossils of multi-celled animals survived from this period and also as this was happening land started spliting apart
  • green algae

    green algae started to form and started to form in the oceans and ponds
  • first cell life

    the first celll was formed about 3,800 million years ago
  • land formation

    land formation
    the landmass under North Carolina began to form about 1,700 million years ago
  • earths crust

    the crust under the coastal plains began to sink and the oceans pushed far west
  • flowering

    flowering plants proliferated along the type of insects that pollinate them
  • ocean changes

    the ocean retreated completly from the costral plain and rapiud erosion was the thing that seperated the oceans
  • amphibians

    amphibian remained common but small but the reptiles populations grew very quickly
  • water

    the rocks of metamorphic were formed to make this water or such liquid
  • oxygen

    oxygen was producing bacteria prolifeated the atmosphere became filled with oxygen and the cells with nuclei formed