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  2. Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia

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    Geologic time shown in a diagram called a geological clock, showing the relative lengths of the eons of Earth's history and noting major events. The geological history of the Earth follows the major geological events in Earth's past based on the geological time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock ...

  3. Geological event - Wikipedia

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    Geological events range in time span by orders of magnitude, from seconds to millions of years, and in spatial scale from local to regional and, ultimately, global. [2] In contrast to chronostratigraphic or geochronological units, that define the boundaries between periods, epochs and other units of the geologic time scale, complex dynamic ...

  4. How the Earth Was Made - Wikipedia

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    It began as a two-hour special exploring the geological history of Earth, airing on December 16, 2007. Focusing on different geologic features of the Earth, the series premiered on February 10, 2009, and the 13-episode first season concluded on May 5, 2009. The second season premiered on November 24, 2009, and concluded on March 2, 2010.

  5. Timeline of natural history - Wikipedia

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    The geologic record is the strata (layers) of rock in the planet's crust and the science of geology is much concerned with the age and origin of all rocks to determine the history and formation of Earth and to understand the forces that have acted upon it.

  6. History of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The first eon in Earth's history, the Hadean, begins with the Earth's formation and is followed by the Archean eon at 3.8 Ga. [2]: 145 The oldest rocks found on Earth date to about 4.0 Ga, and the oldest detrital zircon crystals in rocks to about 4.4 Ga, [34] [35] [36] soon after the formation of the Earth's crust and the Earth

  7. Historical geology - Wikipedia

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    Historical geology or palaeogeology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of geology to reconstruct the geological history of Earth. [1] Historical geology examines the vastness of geologic time, measured in billions of years, and investigates changes in the Earth , gradual and sudden, over this deep time .

  8. History of geology - Wikipedia

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    This questioning represented a turning point in the study of the Earth. It was now possible to study the history of the Earth from a scientific perspective without religious preconceptions. With the application of scientific methods to the investigation of the Earth's history, the study of geology could become a distinct field of science.

  9. Timeline of geology - Wikipedia

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    1701 – Edmond Halley suggests using the salinity and evaporation of the Mediterranean to determine the age of the Earth; 1743 – Dr Christopher Packe produces a geological map of south-east England; 1746 – Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy of Sciences.