Saskatchewan Time Scale Timeline

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  • 4600 BCE

    Earth is formed

    Earth is formed
    All dates above are how many millions of years ago they were
  • 2500 BCE

    Saskatchewan is a part of a large ancient continent

    Saskatchewan is a part of a large ancient continent
    Pangea
  • 2100 BCE

    Break up of the ancient continent

  • 2100 BCE

    Creation of a large ocean

  • 1900 BCE

    There are volcanoes in Saskatchewan

    There are volcanoes in Saskatchewan
  • 1850 BCE

    Wathaman Batholith

    (Intrusion of magma under the surface)
  • 1800 BCE

    Orogeny

    (Mountain building). Trans-Hudson Orogen. Earth changes from an anoxygenic environment to an oxygenic environment. Martin Sandstone is deposited with Stromatolites (mounds created by blue green algae)
  • 1700 BCE

    Erosion of the Mountains

  • 1300 BCE

    Uranium Deposited

  • 544 BCE

    Sask covered by epicontinental Sauk Sea

    These are hard shelled invertebrates including trilobites
  • 478 BCE

    Meteorite hits Saskacthewan

    This leaves behind the Carswell Meteorite Crater
  • 470 BCE

    Tyndall Stone deposited as massive limestone

  • 390 BCE

    Winnipegosis Reefs are deposited

    These later become a trap for oil deposits
  • 385 BCE

    Potash is deposited in the shallow sea that covers Saskatchewan

  • 355 BCE

    First Amphibians

  • 248 BCE

    Mass Extinction in the Oceans

    Ninety percent of species disappear
  • 245 BCE

    First Dinosaurs

  • 220 BCE

    First Mammals

  • 213 BCE

    Saskatchewan is covered by a shallow sea

    Saskatchewan is covered by a shallow sea
  • 100 BCE

    Diamonds brought to surface of Sask in volcanic pipes

  • 75 BCE

    Shallow sea begins to retreat

  • 70 BCE

    Swamps, Rivers, and Lakes form the badlands

    Lignite (brown coal) is formed from the plants deposited in swamps.
  • 66 BCE

    Triceratops roam Saskatchewan

  • 65 BCE

    Dinosaur Extinction

  • 50 BCE

    Climate Changes, Saskatchewan plateau develops

  • 2 BCE

    Ice Age Begins, Covering Saskatchewan except for the Cypress Hills area.

    Diamonds are covered by the glacial till
  • 1 BCE

    Bison Comes to North America

    Bison Comes to North America
    Fifty thousand years ago (0.05 Million Years ago)
  • 1 CE

    Humans come to North America

    Twenty thousand years ago (0.02 Million Years ago), Humans migrate to North America.
  • 1 CE

    Origin of the Prairies

    Origin of the Prairies
    Ten thousand years ago (0.01 Million Years ago), the Origin of the prairies happened