EARTH SCIENCE
Platte Canyon High
School
Bailey, Colorado
GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
Tertiary
after Harland et al., 1982
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EARTH SCIENCE |
Platte Canyon High
School |
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GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE Tertiary after Harland et al., 1982 |
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| Period | Epoch | Age | Ma age | Comments |
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| Tertiary
(Neogene) |
Pliocene | Piacenzian | ||
| Zanclian | 5.1 | |||
| Miocene | Messinian | |||
| Tortonian | ||||
| Serravallian | ||||
| Langhian (late) | 14.4 | |||
| Langhian (early) | ||||
| Burdigalian | ||||
| Aquitanian | 24.6 | |||
| Tertiary
(Paleogene) |
Oligocene | Chattian | 32.8 | |
| Rupelian | 38 | |||
| Eocene | Priabonian | 42 | ||
| Bartonian | ||||
| Lutetian | 50.5 | |||
| Ypresian | 54.9 | |||
| Paleocene | Thanetian | 60.2 | ||
| Danian | 65 |
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