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Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
9th Edition
ISBN:9780134746241
Author:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Publisher:Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens, Dennis G. Tasa
Chapter1: The Study Of Minerals
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Some Important Events in Earth's History
Event #
Date in
years before
present
Event
4.56 billion
Earth forms
4.4 billion
Oldest mineral grain found
Oldest piece of rock ever
3.
4.1 billion
found
4
3.9 billion
Oldest evidence of a continent
3.8 billion
First evidence of life
First fossils (algae and
bacteria)
Free oxygen in atmosphere
First fossil of a complex
3.5 billion
7.
1.8 billion
8.
1.1 billion
organism (a worm)
First abundat life found in the
540 million
9.
rock record
460 million
First fish
10
440 million
First land plants
11

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First land animals
410 milion
Largest mass extinction occurs
First dinosaurs
13
250 million
14
247 million
15
240 million
First mammals
Breakup of supercontinent
Pangaea begins
First flowering plants
16
220 million
17
145 million
18
65 million
Dinosaurs went extinct
19
30 million
Mammals/ flowering plants
become abundant
20
5 million
Beginning of Cascade volcanic
arc
21
1.8 million
First primate in genus Homo
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