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    John Hawks

    John Hawks

    I’m a paleoanthropologist, studying fossil hominins and genetics.

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    Link: New stratigraphy chart

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    The International Commission on Stratigraphy has released the 2018 version of Earth’s stratigraphic intervals, illustrated with a very helpful chart:

    2018 stratigraphic chart from the International Commission on Stratigraphy

    The original, in PDF format, is easily blown up to look at the dates for each interval.

    Tags: dating, deep time, Earth, geology, time

    Updated: July 15, 2018

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