Arc Proterozoic. Sometimes too you ermPo describe the Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoiceras.

    Moreover, all to units of time . Rocks are divided into quite separate unitsknoems, series, and stages. A distinction is also made bete and early(referring to time) and upper and loo layers of rock). It can all get terriblyconfusing to nonspecialists, but to a geologist tters of passion. “I  apory,”

    tisologist Ricey ten o a long-running tietury dispute over he Cambrian and Ordovician.

    At least today ed dating teco table. For most ofteentury geologists could dra rating position t alted on tiquity of an Icon ter t t it en ten timesten thousand” years earlier.

    Alting periods, tage of peopleo try. t tempt orical sourcesand concluded, in a y tome called Annals of testament , t testing  if you are ever required to memorize t riassic Jurassic, etc.) as ths.

    created at midday on October 23, 4004B.C. , an assertion t orians andtextbook ers ever since.

    2tent mytally—and one propounded in many serious books—tUssed scientific beliefs o teentury, and t it raigepime’s Arroes as a typicalexample tence from a popular book of til Lyell publis ted t t, no. As Martin J. S.

    Ruds it, “No geologist of any nationality s advocated a timescale confined s of a literalistic exegesis ofGenesis.” Even teentury produced,noted t no God made  day,but merely “in t beginning, ed “millions uponmillions of years.” Everyone agreed t t. tion was simply .

    One of tter