geologic time scale
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editgeologic time scale (plural geologic time scales)
- A chronological scale of the earth's history used to measure the relative or absolute age of any part of geologic time.
- Synonym: GTS
- 2018 May 2, Mark Carnall, “What is geologic time, and how does it work?”, in The Guardian[1]:
- If maths and physics are the nearest we have to a universal language to communicate with visiting extra-terrestrials, handing them a geologic time scale would be about as useful as a Jackson Pollock painting. It looks hella scientific […] but essentially it’s a very fancy way of telling the story about the history of the Earth.
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editchronological scale of the earth's history
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edit- geologic time scale on Wikipedia.Wikipedia