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Eonothem Eon Erathem Era System Period Series Epoch Stage Age

INTERNATIONAL STRATIGRAPHIC CHART

International Commission on Stratigraphy
Eonothem Eon Erathem Era System Period GSSP Stage Age Age Ma Eonothem Eon Erathem Era System Period Eonothem Eon Erathem Era System Period Series Epoch Series Epoch GSSP GSSP

Quaternary *

Holocene Upper
Pleistocene

0.0118 0.126 0.781

Tithonian Upper Kimmeridgian Oxfordian Callovian

145.5 4.0 150.8 4.0

Upper

Famennian Frasnian Givetian Eifelian Emsian Pragian Lochkovian

359.2 2.5 374.5 2.6 385.3 2.6

Ediacaran Neoproterozoic Cryogenian Tonian

542 ~630 850 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2050 2300 2500

Middle Lower Gelasian

Precambrian Archean Proterozoic

161.2 4.0 164.7 4.0 167.7 3.5 171.6 3.0 175.6 2.0 183.0 1.5 189.6 1.5

Devonian

155.7 4.0

Middle

391.8 2.7 397.5 2.7 407.0 2.8 411.2 2.8 416.0 2.8 418.7 2.7 421.3 2.6 422.9 2.5 426.2 2.4 428.2 2.3 436.0 1.9 439.0 1.8 443.7 1.5 445.6 1.5 455.8 1.6 460.9 1.6 468.1 1.6 471.8 1.6 478.6 1.7 488.3 1.7

Meso zoic Jurassic

1.806 2.588 3.600 5.332 7.246 11.608 13.65 15.97 20.43

Stenian Mesoproterozoic Ectasian Calymmian Statherian Paleoproterozoic Orosirian Rhyacian Siderian Neoarchean

Phanerozoic Cenozoic Paleogene Neogene

Pliocene

Piacenzian
Zanclean

Middle

Bathonian Bajocian Aalenian Toarcian Pliensbachian Sinemurian Hettangian Rhaetian Norian Carnian

Lower

Messinian Tortonian Miocene Serravallian Langhian Burdigalian Aquitanian Oligocene Chattian Rupelian Priabonian Eocene Bartonian Lutetian Ypresian Thanetian Paleocene Selandian Danian Maastrichtian Campanian Upper Santonian Coniacian Turonian Cenomanian Albian Aptian Lower Barremian Hauterivian Valanginian Berriasian

Pridoli

Lower

Ludlow

Ludfordian Gorstian Homerian Sheinwoodian Telychian

Phanerozoic Paleo zoic Ordovician Silurian

196.5 1.0 199.6 0.6 203.6 1.5 216.5 2.0 228.0 2.0 237.0 2.0 245.0 1.5 249.7 0.7 251.0 0.4 253.8 0.7 260.4 0.7 265.8 0.7 268.0 0.7 270.6 0.7 275.6 0.7 284.4 0.7 294.6 0.8 299.0 0.8 303.9 0.9 306.5 1.0 311.7 1.1 318.1 1.3 326.4 1.6

Wenlock

Phanerozoic

Triassic

23.03 28.4 0.1 33.9 0.1 37.2 0.1 40.4 0.2 48.6 0.2 55.8 0.2 58.7 0.2

Upper

2800

Llandovery

Aeronian Rhuddanian Hirnantian

Mesoarchean
3200

Middle Lower

Ladinian Anisian
Olenekian

Paleoarchean
3600

Upper

Stage 6 Stage 5 Darriwilian Stage 3 Stage 2 Tremadocian Stage 10 Stage 9 Paibian

Induan Changhsingian Wuchiapingian Capitanian

Eoarchean

Lower limit is not defined

Lopingian

Middle

Paleo zoic Carboniferous Permian

61.7 0.2 65.5 0.3 70.6 0.6 83.5 0.7 85.8 0.7 89.3 1.0 93.5 0.8 99.6 0.9 112.0 1.0 125.0 1.0 130.0 1.5 136.4 2.0 140.2 3.0 145.5 4.0

Guadalupian

Wordian Roadian Kungurian

Lower

Furongian

Cisuralian

Artinskian Sakmarian Asselian Gzhelian Kasimovian Moscovian Bashkirian Visean

Mesozoic Cretaceous

Cambrian

Stage 7 Series 3 Stage 6 Stage 5 Series 2 Lower Series Stage 4 Stage 3 Stage 2 Stage 1

501.0 2.0

Pennsylvanian

Upper Middle Lower

Mississippian

Upper Serpukhovian
Middle Lower

542.0 1.0

345.3 2.1 Tournaisian 359.2 2.5

This chart was drafted by Gabi Ogg.

Copyright 2005 International Commission on Stratigraphy

Subdivisions of the global geologic record are formally defined by their lower boundary. Each unit of the Phanerozoic (~542 Ma to Present) and the base of Ediacaran are defined by a basal Global Standard Section and Point (GSSP ), whereas Precambrian units are formally subdivided by absolute age (Global Standard Stratigraphic Age, GSSA). Details of each GSSP are posted on the ICS website (www.stratigraphy.org). International chronostratigraphic units, rank, names and formal status are approved by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Numerical ages of the unit boundaries in the Phanerozoic are subject to revision. Some stages within the Ordovician and Cambrian will be formally named upon international agreement on their GSSP limits. Most sub-Series boundaries (e.g., Middle and Upper Aptian) are not formally defined. Colors are according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The listed numerical ages are from 'A Geologic Time Scale 2004', by F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, A.G. Smith, et al. (2004; Cambridge University Press).

* proposed by ICS

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