单词 | geological time |
释义 | geological time (once / 26802 pages) n WORD FAMILY geological time: geological times USAGE EXAMPLESShe likes the awareness the desert gives her of distance, emptiness, and geological time. The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016) If that passes, then geological time, whose passage is famously slow, will have ticked perceptibly on. Economist(Aug 31, 2016) The Anthropocene epoch should begin in about 1950, as man-made developments ended the geological time defined by the current epoch, the Holocene, the scientists said. Time(Aug 29, 2016) n the time of the physical formation and development of the earth (especially prior to human history) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper geologic time Phanerozoic aeon the period from about 5,400 million years ago until the present Age of Mammalsapproximately the last 63 million years Quaternary periodlast 2 million years Holocene epochapproximately the last 10,000 years Pleistocene epochfrom two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolution Tertiary periodfrom 63 million to 2 million years ago Pliocene epochfrom 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals Miocene epochfrom 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals Oligocene epochfrom 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats Eocene epochfrom 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals Paleocene epochfrom 63 million to 58 million years ago; appearance of birds and earliest mammals Age of Reptilesfrom 230 million to 63 million years ago Cretaceous periodfrom 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants Jurassic periodfrom 190 million to 135 million years ago; dinosaurs; conifers Triassic periodfrom 230 million to 190 million years ago; dinosaurs, marine reptiles; volcanic activity Paleozoic erafrom 544 million to about 230 million years ago Permian periodfrom 280 million to 230 million years ago; reptiles Carboniferous periodfrom 345 million to 280 million years ago Upper Carboniferous periodfrom 310 million to 280 million years ago; warm climate; swampy land Lower Carboniferous periodfrom 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects Devonian periodfrom 405 million to 345 million years ago; preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites Silurian periodfrom 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals Ordovician periodfrom 500 million to 425 million years ago; conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds Cambrian periodfrom 544 million to about 500 million years ago; marine invertebrates Precambrian periodthe eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon; from about 3,800 million years ago until 544 million years ago Proterozoic aeonfrom 2,500 to 544 million years ago; bacteria and fungi; primitive multicellular organisms Archaeozoic aeonthe time from 3,800 million years to 2,500 million years ago; earth's crust formed; unicellular organisms are earliest forms of life Priscoan aeonthe earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life aeon, eon the longest division of geological time geological period, perioda unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed era, geological eraa major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods epocha unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages glacial epoch, glacial period, ice ageany period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
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