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La Consolacion UniversityPhilippines

(Formerly University of Regina Carmeli)

City of Malolos, Bulacan

Earth & Life Science

1st Semester, 2nd Quarter

Week 1 Activity

Geologic Time Scale

1. What is used by the scientists to identify the events in Earth's history of life forms?

2. What are the time intervals of geologic time?

3. What methods were used to determine the time interval of events?

1. The geologic time scale is a scale which geologists and paleontologists categorize periods and
eras where a group of life forms are present. Based on our research, the geologic time scale is
divided into four large segments called Eons. This Eons were the Hadean, the Archean, the
Proterozoic, and the Phanerozoic. 2. Eons are the largest intervals of geologic time and are
hundreds of millions of years in duration. Eons are divided into smaller time intervals known as
eras. Eras are subdivided into periods. Periods can be divided into epochs. Subdivision of periods
into epochs can be done only for the most recent portion of the geologic time scale. This is because
older rocks have been buried deeply, intensely deformed and severely modified by long-term earth
processes. As a result, the history contained within these rocks cannot be as clearly interpreted. 3.
This is how scientists differentiate each events in the geologic time scale. Using these principles for
relative dating of geological features, scientists divided each time scales. •Law of Superposition -
For sedimentary rocks, each bed is older than the one above it and younger than the one below it.
•Principle of Original Horizontality - Layers of sediment are generally deposited in a horizontal
position. This is useful even if beds of sedimentary rock have been subsequently tilted. •Principle of
cross - cutting relationships. A fault or intrusion is younger than the rocks affected by it. Inclusions:
the rock mass containing the inclusions is older than the rock providing the included material.
•Unconformities - interruptions of sedimentation with removal of material by erosion and then a
resumption of deposition can place rock strata in contact that have a gap of time and material
between them. •Principle of fossil succession - fossil organisms succeed one another in a definite
order. The fossils observed help to identify the time period in which the organism lived.

References: 1.
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/outreach/floridaseagrant/pdf_files/TropicalConnections_GeologicalTimeWithMajo
rEvolutionaryEventsInFossilRecord_KruczynskiFletcher.pdf

2. https://geology.com/time.htm

3. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Geophys/geotime.html

Grade 11-HUMSS 5-B

Group no. 5

Leader:Ran Dave Catindig Torres

Group Members: Justine Dayao, Kyla Bulus,Alyssa Mae De Leon, Allianna Mae Bituin, Angelica
Labios, Caren Claro, Ran Dave Catindig Torres

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