Cenozoic - last 65 MyrThe Age of Pices - 100 BC to 2660 AD Asimov:1974 The rise of Christianity -
Little Ice Age - 1550 to 1850 AD Pidwirny:1999 The Age of Aries - 3,650 BP to 100 BC Asimov:1974 Moses led his people out of Egypt and forbid them to worship the golden calf. The sound of the Shofar (The ram's horn) was heard in Israel.
The Age of Taurus - 6,120 BP to 3,650 BP Asimov:1974 Stonehenge and other Megalithic Circles - 5,000 BP What in the World Happened in 3,200 BC? Life goes underground in Turkey - 5,600 to 4,500 BP The Age of Gemini - 7,960 BP to 6,120 BP Asimov:1974 Climatic Optimum 7000 - 5000 BP - Pidwirny:1999 {But see a graph of the last 10,000 years}
7,600 BP - Saltwater starts trickling into the Black Sea. The Black Sea was, at this point, 500 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. Ryan & Pitman The Age of Cancer - 9,440 BP to 7,960 BP Asimov:1974 By 8,000 BP - Extinction of 70% of large North American Mammals
8,000 BP + - Catal Huyuk founded
8,200 BP - Mini Ice Age 7,000 - 5,000 BP - Megalithic Shelters The Age of Leo - 12,120 BP to 9,440 BP Asimov:1974 The Pleistocene/Holocene Boundry 10,000 BP Pielou:1991 11,000 BP - The Sinking of Atlantis 11,400 BP - The second meltwater pulse of the ice sheets. Arizona Meteor Crater Picture 10,000 years ago - Osborne and Tarling:1996 20,000 to 50,000 years ago - Desonie:1996 50,000 years ago - Steel:1995 25,000 years ago - Sagan:1985 15,000 to 40,000 years ago - Sagan:1985
The Younger Dryas 10,600 to 10,000 BP - NASA 12,000 to 10,500 BP - Pidwirny:1999 12,500 to 11,400 BP - Ryan and Pittman:1998 Washington Scablands formed - 12,000 BP 12,700 BP - Jomon culture in Japan has decorated pottery Rudgley 1999:28 Ice Melts 14,000 BP - Warming of Earth and glacial retreat began. Pidwirny:1999 14,500 BP - The first rapid pulse of melting of the ice sheets. Ryan and Pitman: 1996 15,000 BP - glaciers were in full retreat, pouring millions of gallons of frigid meltwater into the rivers across North America and Eurasia. Ryan and Pitman:1996 15,000 BP - Flow had almost ceased into the Black Sea. Ryan and Pitman:1996 20,000 BP - The great glacial meltdown began. Water level rises in the Black Sea. Ryan and Pitman:1996 18,000 BP Ice began to melt. Pielou:1991 The Age of Virgo - 15,440 BP Asimov:1974 "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."
16,000 BP Final Maximum - Wisconsin glaciation The Age of Libra - 17,200 BP Asimov:1974 "and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand." The Age of Scorpio - 18,900 BP Asimov:1974 Solutrean period - 18,000 to 21,000 BP The Age of Saggitarius - 21,300 Asimov:1974 The Age of Capricorn - 23,425 BP Asimov:1974 The Age of Aquarius - 25,125 BP Asimov:1974 30,000 years ago - End of Upper Pleistocene 35,000 years ago - Modern man enters Europe. Beginning of last ice age 120,000 years ago - Ryan and Pitman:1998 The Earth's climate and the level of the seas were about the same as today. 100,000 years ago - man leaves Africa - Beginning of Upper Pleistocene 300,000 years ago Geminga pulsar born
Middle Pleistocene 730,000 to 128,000 Years Ago The Matuyama/Brunes boundary {Reversed/Normal magnetic boundary} 730,000 years ago - Fagan:1995
The Jarmillo Event A magnetic reversal 980,000 years ago.
1,600,000 years ago - Homo Erectus, horses, cattle, elephants and camels. Tame Fire. Lower Pleistocene (1,600,000 to 730,000 Years Ago) Pleistocene 2,000,000 - 14,000 BP - Pidwirny:1999
Tertiary Era
Pliocene Miocene 5 million years ago - Mediterranean desert floods in a human lifetime. Ryan & Pitman:1996 Messinian 7.2 - 5.4 million years ago - The Mediterranean became separated from the Atlantic and dried up. Ryan & Pitman:1996 Oligocene 10,000,000 years ago- The Colorado Plateau was lifted up thousands of feet above the Pacific-allowing the erosion of the Grand Canyon. 30,000,000 years ago - Eocene/Oligocene First known Glaciers in Antartica. Eocene Rocky Mountains formed Sudden drop in temperature Paleocene The Deccan Traps At the end of the CretaceousThe K/T Extinction - 65 Myr ago
"Took over a million years to accomplish." Eldridge:1982Mesozoic Era
CretaceousMinor Extinctions - 145 Myr Myr ago
JurassicMajor Extinction - 215 Myr Myr ago
TriassicThe Permian Extinction - 250 Myr ago
Palaeozoic Era - 590 Myr ago to 248 Myr ago
Permian Pennsylvanian(Carboniferous) Mississippian (Carboniferous)Major Extinction - 360 Myr ago
DevonianMajor Extinction - 438 Myr ago
Silurian Ordovician The Cambrian Explosion Venus is resurfaced. 600 MYR Grinspoon Gribbin & GribbinPrecambrian