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A dataset containing the boundary ages, abbreviations, and colors for the eras of the Geologic Time Scale. Based on The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2022/10), by Cohen, Finney, Gibbard, and Fan.

Usage

eras

Format

A data frame with 10 rows and 5 variables:

name

era name

max_age

maximum age, in millions of years

min_age

minimum age, in millions of years

abbr

era name abbreviations

color

the colors for each era, according to the Commission for the Geological Map of the World

See also

Other timescales: eons, epochs, periods, stages