HISTORY OF EARTH

PREPARED BY:
DIANE GUILARAN
SPECIAL SCIENCE TEACHER I
PREPARE ½
CROSSWISE
YELLOWPAD
How Old is the Earth?
 The age of the
AGE OF THE
EARTH earth is around 4.6
billions year.
When did man
first appear on
Earth?
 Man could have first
When did man appeared about 100 – 150
first appear on thousand years ago as shown
Earth? by artefactual evidences in
various sites.

The human timeline is rather
flexible and debatable every
time we know a specific date,
a new discovery is announced
and everything gets redated
to fit the best estimates.
Geologic time scale
Geologic the time line of the History
Time of the Earth, is based from
Scale the rock record
 Geologic time is subdivided
into hierarchal intervals
Geologic Eon
Time Era
Scale Period
Epoch
Ages
 Subdivision of Geologic time
Geologic is based from significant
Time events in the Earth’s History
Scale as interpreted from the rock
record.
 Steno’s principles
NOTE:
rocks and time
GTS
Nicholas  superposition, original
Steno horizontality, and lateral
continuity
(1638-
1686). foundation of stratigraphy – the
study of layered rocks.
 NOTE:
the first order of business is to
GTS establish the correct succession
Nicholas of rocks
Steno
Initially, this was done using
(1638- relative dating techniques
1686).
 divided the rock record into the
following rock-time units (from
NOTE: oldest to youngest):
GTS  Primary, Secondary, Tertiary,
Abraham and Quaternary.
Gottlob Principle of Superposition
Werner extensively to establish temporal
relationship among the rock
units.
 NOTE:
GTS Fossils are also useful in
William determining relative ages of
“Strata” rocks
Smith fossils succeed each other
(1769 – vertically in a definite order.
1839)
 recognized the utility of fossils in
NOTE: subdividing Geologic Time on the
GTS basis of fossils.
Charles Subdivide the Tertiary by
Lyell (1797 – examining the proportion of
1875 living vs. extinct fossils in the
rocks.
 recognized the utility of fossils in
NOTE: subdividing Geologic Time on the
GTS basis of fossils.
Charles Subdivide the Tertiary by
Lyell (1797 – examining the proportion of
1875 living vs. extinct fossils in the
rocks.
NOTE: The underlying reason for this
definite and orderly succession
GTS of fossils in the rock record is
organic evolution.
EVOLUTION a. Fossils are an essential
OF EARTH’S
HISTORY part of subdividing the
Geologic Time.
 b. Biostratigraphy - a sub-
EVOLUTION discipline of stratigraphy
OF EARTH’S which deals with the use of
HISTORY fossils in correlation and
establishing the relative ages
of rocks.
 c. Index Fossils - are marker fossils
used to define periods of Geologic
Time.
EVOLUTION
OF EARTH’S Ideally, index fossils are distinctive
HISTORY (can be easily identified and
distinguished from other fossils,
widespread (distribution is not
confined to a few locality) , and have
limited geologic time range.
 d. Ultimately, the Geologic
EVOLUTION Time Scale was assigned
OF EARTH’S
HISTORY
numerical dates (absolute
dating) through the
radiometric dating of rocks.
TASK:
Create an infographic
booklet about geologic
time scale
1. The Precambrian or Cryptozoic Era (4.6 Ga – 540 Ma)
2. Hadean Eon (4.56 -3.8 Ga)
3. Archean Eon (3.8 – 2.5 Ga)
4. Proterozoic Eon (2.5 Ga to 540 Ma)
5. Phanerozoic Eon (540 Ma to Present)
6. Paleozoic Era (540 – 245)
7. Mesozoic Era (245 – 65 Ma)
8. Cenozoic Era (65 ma to present)
 Primarily it uses pictures and
INFOGRAPHIC
BOOKLET lesser words to simplify the
content
Blue Cube
Exist around 36 mya
The first cube in
Earth