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India has its own geological eras and periods. The standard geological eras are
1.
2.
3.
4.

Indian G.K.

The
The
The
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Pre-Cambrian (over 570 million years old)

Paleozoic (245-570 million years old)
Mesozoic (66-245 million years old)
Cenozoic (66 million years old to the present)

The Indian Geological eras are

World GK
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1.
2.
3.
4.

The
The
The
The

Archean or Early Pre-Cambrian

Purana or Late Pre Cambrian
Dravidian (400-570 million years old)
Aryan (400 million years old to the present)

The Pre Cambrian derives its names from Wales in the United Kingdom. The periods got their names from places
where rock formations of that period were formed. The Pre-Cambrians do not contain fossils of plants and animals.
The Paleozoic have the fossils of very early lives, the Mesozoic have middle lives and the Cenozoic recent lives.
Major Geological Formations of India
Indian
Era

Standard
Duration
of Age
from
Major
Formation
Geological
Eras Period (in million beginning
(in
Peninsula
and Periods
years)
million years)

Aryan

Cenozoic
Quaternary
(Recent
Pleistocene)
Tertiary
(Pliocene
Miocene)
Eocene
Mesozoic
Cretaceous
Jurassic Triassic

Less than 2

2 or 3

Newer Alluvial
laterites

in

Major Formations
in
Extra
Peninsula

deserts, Formation
Ganga Plains

of

Jurassic Triassic
Paleozoic
Permian
Dravidain Carboniferous
Devonian Silurian
Ordovician

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Pre-Cambrian
Late
Pre- Cambrian

Purana

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Formation
Himalayas

Tertiary Coastal Deposits

570

Vindhayan
Cuddaph
Dharwar Aravalli Archean Archean Gneiss
systems

of

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| Prim e Ministe r of India

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