User:IveGoneAway/sandbox/Cenozoic: study of divisions
I needed a more holistic way to visualize the divisions of the Cenozoic.
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System/ Period |
Series/ Epoch |
Stage/ Age |
Geology | Start (Ma) | |
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| P h a n e o z o i c |
C e n z o i c |
Quaternary | Holocene "completely new" |
Meghalayan | <text> | 0.0042 * | |
| Northgrippian | <text> | 0.0082 * | |||||
| Greenlandian | <text> | 0.0117 ± 0.000099 * | |||||
| Pleistocene "newest" |
'Tarantian' | Eemian | 0.129 | ||||
| Chibanian | <text> | 0.774 * | |||||
| Calabrian | <text> | 1.8 * | |||||
| Gelasian | Blanco (Rexroad) | 2.58 * | |||||
| T e r t i a r y |
Neogene "new rising" |
Pliocene "newer" |
Piacenzian | "algal" limestone | 3.6 * | ||
| Zanclean | (agate) Ogallala (green opal) |
5.333 * | |||||
| Miocene "less new" |
Messinian | 7.246 * | |||||
| Tortonian | 11.63 * | ||||||
| Serravallian | 13.82 * | ||||||
| Langhian | 15.98 * | ||||||
| Burdigalian | 20.44 | ||||||
| Aquitanian | <text> | 23.03 * | |||||
| Paleogene "old rising" |
Oligocene "few new" |
Chattian | <text> | 27.82 * | |||
| Rupelian | Brule | 33.9 * | |||||
| Eocene "dawn of new" |
Priabonian | <text> | 37.71 * | ||||
| Bartonian | 41.2 | ||||||
| Lutetian | 47.8 * | ||||||
| Ypresian | Green River | 56 * | |||||
| Paleocene "old dawn of new" |
Thanetian | <text> | 59.2 * | ||||
| Selandian | 61.6 * | ||||||
| Danian | 66 * | ||||||
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[edit]| C e n z o i c |
Epoch/Series | Age/Stage | Dating | Trend | Geology | |
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| Quaternary | Holocene "completely new" |
0 to 0.012 Ma | present interglacial | Bignell Loess | ||
| Pleistocene "newest" |
0.012 to 2.58 Ma | 4 recent glaciations | Wisconsin/Illinoian | |||
| Blanco (Rexroad) | ||||||
| T e r t i a r y |
Neogene "new rising" |
Pliocene "new" |
2.58 to 5.33 Ma | glaciation | Abilene cgl | |
| Ogallala Formation | ||||||
| Miocene "less new" |
5.33 to 23.03 Ma | cooling trend | ||||
| Paleogene "old rising" |
Oligocene "few new" |
23.03 to 33.90 Ma | warmhouse | Arikaree Formation | ||
| Eocene "dawn of new" |
33.90 to 56.00 Ma | greenesthouse | Green River Formation | |||
| Paleocene "old dawn of new" |
56.00 to 66.00 Ma | greenhouse | Dawson Arkose Denver Formation | |||