An Age:
An Age is millions of years long.
An Epoch:
An Epoch contains more than an Age.
A Period:
A period contains more than one Epoch.
An Era:
An Era contains more than one Period.
An Eon: الدهر
An Eon contains more than an Era.
Eon is the largest interval of hundreds millions years age ago. Eons are subdivided into Eras
According to the Dinosaur & Paleontology Dictionary the Period is the basic unit of geological time in which a single type of rock system is formed. Two or more Periods comprise a geological Era. Two or more Eras form an Eon. Some periods are divided into Epochs.
A Blog by Muneer Ahmed Khalili....
No comments:
Post a Comment