Do the 'geological time scale/column' and the Bible match/agree with each other? Or do they conflict and one or the other is (or both are) wrong? (I mean the general sequence of periods, ignoring the ascribed dates/durations which are questioned by some scholars/scientists/creationists.) First here is a compiled version of the Geological Time Scale which i have compiled from a number of different sources. (Note: The Precambrian periods are a little bit uncertain since there are some differences in different sources.) You can also see another more clear version of the general eras/periods/epochs layout here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale .
(Cosmologic? Primordial?) | * Precambrian/Laurentian/Cryptozoic (algae, worms, bacteria, trilobites, arthropods, microorganisms, coal) Azoic/Hadean/Priscoan (Paleo-Laurentian? Chaotian, Prenectarian, Cryptic, Basin) (Zirconian, Nectarian, Early Imbrian) (water, coal, crystalline) (primeval ocean, rain drops, hot winds, sea sediments?) | Archeozoic/Archean (Pongolan, Rayner orogeny, Insell orogeny, photosynthesis) (cells/life, chemicals, Keewatin lava/sedimentary? Timiskaming?) (metamorphised sedimentary, granite, algae, invertebrates) | Proterozoic (Algonkian? Keweenawan? Cadomian) (Huronian, Tonian, Cryogenian, Ediacaran, Dorchester pot) (biota, algae, microorganisms, oxygen-rich) (orogenies, metamorphic, Taconic, Rodinia/Columbia) | * Phanerozoic * Palaeozoic/Primary / old fold mountains (invrtebrates, fish, amphibians) * Upper Paleozoic / invertebrates (Caledonian, trilobites, graptolites) Cambrian (marine vertebrates, slallow seas, marine life, trilobites, brachipods) (explosion, algae, aquatic invertebrates, microorganisms, fungi, spores) (like land plants, reef, giant, orogenies, sea flooded continents) (metamorphosed rocks, human footprint with trilobites in it) | Ordovician (ice age, Taconian, Caledonian, limestone, shallow seas) (marine invertebrates, fish, land plants, fish-like, vertebrates) (corals, seas submerged / waters spilled over, Taconian, ash, ice) | Silurian (land plants, cephalopods, trilobites, fish, land animals, arthropods) (marine plants, Caledonian, ash, lava, overthrust, coral) (Upper Paleolithic tools made of Silurian material) | * Lower Paleozoic (fish, fern) Devonian/fishes (Old Red Sandstone, Acadian) (land plants, trees, brachiopods, fish, sharks, insects, amphibians) (arthropods, terrestrial vertebrates, tree-like, clubmoss, ferns) (trees, corals, igneous, granite, Euramerica landbridge, land plants) | * Amphibians Carboniferous/Coal (seas invaded land, volcanoes, glaciation, land animals, marine life) Lower Carboniferous / Mississippian (land plants, crinoids, sharks, fish, land animals, insects, glaciation) UpperCarboniferous / Pennsylvanian (warm, Hercynian/Armorican, ferns, cockroaches, reptiles) (high oxygen, humanoid tracks in sandstone / sandy beach) | Permian (ice age, coal, ferns, confiers, trilobites) (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, insects, evergreens) (cone-bearing, shallow reefs, Pangaea) | Permian-Triassic extinction event | * young fold mountains * Mesozoic/Secondary/Reptiles (vegetarian, warm, pine/palm) (gymnosperms, cycads, birds, ammonites, sea-urchins) Triassic (Rhaetian, dinosaurs, mammal-like, mammals) (present-day type insects, modern corals) | Jurassic (Lias, Oolite, Oxford Clay, Nevadan) (cycads, mammals, birds, archaeopterix, angiosperms) (Laurasia & Gondwana, carbon dioxide, no seasons) | Commanchian | Cretaceous/Chalk (Cenomanian, Turonian, Laramide) (worldwide break/upheaval/catastrophe, four rivers in Palestine) (mammals, dinosaurs, snakes) (human & dinosaur footprints in same bed/strata) (breakup of Godwana, London artefact iron hammer, Moab Man) (fossil leaves indistinguishable from present-day flowering plants) | * Cenozoic/Mammals/sedimentary (birds, plants, new era, Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, cold-warm-glacial) * Tertiary (deciduous, pluvial) * Palaeogene (nummulitic) Palaeocene (impact, extinction event, tropical, diversify) | Eocene (Alpine, horses, warming-cooling, Himalayas, Antarctic ice) | Oligocene (mastodons, monkeys, apes, seasons) (extinction, Antarctic glaciation, diversification) | * Neogene Miocene (Alpine, dogs, horses, apes) (lowering carbondioxide, warmer, disruption/extinctions) (saline lakes, moderate icehouse climate, ice ages, Antarctic ice) | Pliocene (Alpine, apemen, Greenland ice, cooling, flooding of Meidterranean) (Calveras man) | * Quarternary/Anthropocene/Anthropolithic/Posttertiary (cultivated) Pleistocene/Glacial/Diluvial/GreatIceAge/Palaeolithic/Postpliocene (Gelasian, Calabrian, Eemian, Dryas, Toba) (Gunz, Mindel, Riss, Wurm) (megafauna, megafauna extinction) | Holocene/Recent/Alluvial/Postglacial/Psychozoic (Preboreal/warmer, Boreal/arid, Atlantic/warm, Climatic Optimum) (Subboreal, Klimasturz, Subatlantic) (Neolithic, Doggerland, Sundaland, Sahara, Little Ice Age).
Edited by Arthur-Robin - 04-Apr-2019 at 05:30
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