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|colspan=3|<span style="float:right;"><small><small><span class="plainlinksneverexpand"><small>  </small></span></small><small></span><br/><big><center>'''Eras and Erathems mapped into Eons'''</center></big> | |||
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|colspan=3|<span style="float:right;"><small><small><span class="plainlinksneverexpand"><small>  </small></span></small><small></span><center><big>'''Units in geochronology and stratigraphy'''</big></center> | |||
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|<center>]<br/>] of the<br/> ]</big></center> | |||
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| ''Main article:'' ]<br/><br/><hr/><center>'''Notes'''</center> | |||
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| style="text-align:center;" | ] || style="text-align:center;" | ] || 4 total, half a billion years or more | |||
| ] ||]|| 3 total, hundreds of millions of years | |||
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| style="text-align:center;" | ] || style="text-align:center;" | ] || 10 defined, several hundred million years | |||
| ] || ]|| Some familiar names | |||
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| style="text-align:center;" | ] || style="text-align:center;" | ] || 22 defined, tens to ~one hundred million years | |||
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| style="text-align:center;" | ] || style="text-align:center;" | ] || 34 defined, tens of millions of years | |||
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|fewest years spanned<big><big>'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''</big></big> | |||
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| style="text-align:center;" | ] || style="text-align:center;" | ] || 99 defined, millions of years | |||
|colspan=3|<big><big>'''<nowiki>*</nowiki>'''</big></big> Most and ''the most time specific'' time divisions<ref | |||
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Segments of rock (strata) in chronostratigraphy | Time spans in geochronology | Notes to geochronological units |
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Eonothem | Eon | 4 total, half a billion years or more |
Erathem | Era | 10 defined, several hundred million years |
System | Period | 22 defined, tens to ~one hundred million years |
Series | Epoch | 34 defined, tens of millions of years |
Stage | Age | 99 defined, millions of years |
Chronozone | Chron | subdivision of an age, not used by the ICS timescale |
References
These references will appear in the article, but this list appears only on this page.- Cohen, K.M.; Finney, S.; Gibbard, P.L. (2015), International Chronostratigraphic Chart (PDF), International Commission on Stratigraphy.