How Geologic Time is Organized - Why You Might Sound Weird to a Paleontologist

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Hello and welcome to a mini-discussion on how geologic time works! This video addresses how to properly refer to parts of the geologic timescale.
The timescale in the background (which parts were also expanded for the thumbnail and examples) is from Walker, J.D., Geissman, J.W., Bowring, S.A., and Babcock, L.E., compilers, 2018, Geologic Time Scale v. 5.0: Geological Society of America, doi.org/10.113.... The timescale can be found here www.geosociety....
The International Commission on Stratigraphy - www.stratigraph...
Links for learning about geologic time
General overview of the entire Earth from the Smithsonian: www.smithsonia...
National Park Service: www.nps.gov/su...
University of California Museum of Paleontology: www.ucmp.berkel...

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TIL that British people pronounce epoch "ee-pock" and American people pronounce epoch "eh-pick" and both are correct. As an American I greatly prefer the British pronunciation because I want to know if we are talking about a period of time or a heroic story, but to each their own.
Great video!

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Excellent episode!

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