Earth sciences

In order to understand the term Anthropocene, it is necessary to know that the history of the earth has been divided over time into a hierarchical series that includes pieces of time which is called the geological time scale and that the divisions that this hierarchy has are they are known by the name of eons , eras , periods , ages, and epochs . The time in which we currently live is known as … Read more

The geological eras are units that are part of the geologic time scale and are responsible for representing the time corresponding to the duration of an era, while allowing to place the existence of the human being into a particular point to understand and know the life of the ancestors. The eras are then, the major divisions in which geological time is divided and there are several of them. In this … Read more