We Thought Geological Boundaries Were Random. Now, A New Study Has Identified Hidden Patterns | NYGazet

“Geological time scales may look like tidy timelines in textbooks, but their boundaries tell a much more chaotic story.”

Earth’s history is divided up into different geological wedges of time, wedges we like to call things like epochs, periods, and eons. They’re defined by events that shaped the planet (think big extinctions and biodiversity booms), and it’s generally ... [2975 chars]