Topic
Geologic Time
3 questions tagged Geologic Time — spanning every one of the seven Ws.
whose
Whose work first created the geologic time scale?
James Hutton and later Charles Lyell laid the foundations of modern geology, while 19th-century geologists built the geologic time scale. It organizes Earth's history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs.
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when
When was the first official geologic time scale proposed?
The first widely accepted geologic time scale began taking shape in the 19th century, especially from the 1830s onward.
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which
Which geologic epoch are we living in now?
We are living in the Holocene Epoch, which began about 11,700 years ago after the last Ice Age.
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