Timeline

Timeline
Eon Era Period Timeline Millions of Years
Phanerozoic Cenozoic Quarternary

Modern man; northern glaciation

First dinosaurs. Abundant cycads and conifers.


65

Mountain
Building

Tertiary ⇒
Mesozoic Cretaceous
Jurassic ⇒
Triassic
Paleozoic Permian

First fishes; invertebrates dominant.

First abundant record of marine life; trilobites dominant.

250

Pine Point
Mineralization

540

Caroboniferous
Devonian ⇒
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian Proterozoic

723

Franklin Sills

900

Stromalotiles

1200

Proterozoic
dyke

megacrystic
granite

1840

Sedimentary
Rocks

2200

Dogrib
Dyke

Archean

2600

Yellowknife
gold
Mineralization

2700

Yellowknife
Pillow
Volcanics

Hadean

3800

Acasta Gneiss
(Oldest known
rocks in the
world)

⇐ 4300