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    In stratigraphy and geology, an eonothem is the totality of rock strata laid down in the stratigraphic record deposited during a certain eon of the continuous...
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    representative of a specific interval of geologic time, and only this time span. Eonothem, erathem, system, series, subseries, stage, and substage are the hierarchical...
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    time, from the shortest time span stage to the largest thickest strata eonothem and time spans eon. Concurrent work in other natural science fields required...
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  • The Phanerozoic eonothem can thus be divided into Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic erathems. Similarly, the Proterozoic eonothem is divided youngest...
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  • literature. The geological timescale has all systems in the Phanerozoic eonothem subdivided into series. Some of these have their own names, in other cases...
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    used ICS Time Scale Definition Chronological unit Eon Stratigraphic unit Eonothem Time span formality Formal Lower boundary definition Ten oldest U-Pb zircon...
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  • usage Global (ICS) Definition Chronological unit Eon Stratigraphic unit Eonothem First proposed by Preston Cloud, 1972 Time span formality Formal Lower...
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  • chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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    used ICS Time Scale Definition Chronological unit Eon Stratigraphic unit Eonothem Time span formality Formal Lower boundary definition Defined Chronometrically...
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  • nearly finished with a task begun in 1974, subdividing the Phanerozoic eonothem into internationally accepted stages using two types of benchmark. For...
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  • chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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  • chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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  • the fossil assemblage rests. Chronostratigraphic units, with examples: eonothem – Phanerozoic erathem – Paleozoic system – Ordovician series – Upper Ordovician...
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    multiple names: authors list (link) "GSSP at the base of the Phanerozoic Eonothem, Paleozoic Erathem, Cambrian System, Terreneuvian Series, and Fortunian...
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  • used ICS Time Scale Definition Chronological unit Eon Stratigraphic unit Eonothem First proposed by George Halcott Chadwick, 1930 Time span formality Formal...
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    (strata) in chronostratigraphy Periods of time in geochronology Notes (Mars) Eonothem Eon not used for Mars Erathem Era not used for Mars System Period 3 total;...
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    chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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  • chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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    (strata) in chronostratigraphy Periods of time in geochronology Notes (Mars) Eonothem Eon not used for Mars Erathem Era not used for Mars System Period 3 total;...
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    chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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  • chronostratigraphy Time spans in geochronology Notes to geochronological units Eonothem Eon 4 total, half a billion years or more Erathem Era 10 defined, several...
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    (strata) in chronostratigraphy Periods of time in geochronology Notes (Mars) Eonothem Eon not used for Mars Erathem Era not used for Mars System Period 3 total;...
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  • Huainan biota (category Proterozoic Eonothem of Asia)
    The Huainan biota is a collection of macroscopic skeletal organisms discovered in the early 1980s by Wang and Sun Weiguo in the Precambrian deposits of...
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  • Doushantuo Formation (category Proterozoic Eonothem of Asia)
    The Doushantuo Formation (formerly transcribed as Toushantuo or Toushantou, from Chinese: 陡山沱; pinyin: dǒu shān tuó; lit. 'steep mountain bay') is a geological...
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  • Thumbnail for New Zealand geologic time scale
    geologic time scale for context with proportional representation of eons/eonothems and eras/erathems mentioned on this page. Currently we are in the Cenozoic...
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    Gunflint chert (category Proterozoic Eonothem of North America)
    The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern...
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  • Lantian Formation (category Proterozoic Eonothem of Asia)
    The Lantian Formation is a 150-meter-thick sequence of rocks deposited in Xiuning County, Anhui Province in southern China during a 90-million-year epoch...
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    (strata) in chronostratigraphy Periods of time in geochronology Notes (Mars) Eonothem Eon not used for Mars Erathem Era not used for Mars System Period 3 total;...
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  • Middle Run Formation (category Proterozoic Eonothem of North America)
    The Middle Run Formation is a geologic formation in Ohio. It dates back to the Precambrian. It was discovered in October 1987 when the United States Geological...
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