A Brief History of Geologic Time

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By looking at the layers beneath our feet, geologists have been able to identify and describe crucial episodes in life’s history. These key events frame the chapters in the story of life on earth and the system we use to bind all these chapters together is the Geologic Time Scale.
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I feel extremely lucky to be living in this specific part in time when science allows us to find some of these things out.

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Science doesn't allow us to do that. We came up with the philosophy underlying the scientific method. Our human brains came up with that philosophy. And those human brains came about because of natural selection and evolution. And natural selection and evolution came about due to natural processes. So it's the natural processes studying themselves that is really happening, which is really trippy if you think about it...

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sad that we collectively were incapable of being a positive force instead of being even more destructive than asteroid strikes and massive ice ages. Hopefully our successors will not be cursed with religion, greed and hatred.

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Hmm, so you can say that the study of earth and sky would humble the most arrogant of humans. Kinda poetic.

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3:34 hadean eon 4:25 archean eon 4:55 Proterozoic eon 5:28 Phanerozoic eon 6:00 paleozoic era 7:41 the great dying 8:10 mesozoic era 8:40 cretaceous-paleogene extinction event 9:46 cenezoic era 10:31 ice age

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Dingo 154 Fish in the Cambrian?

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What "level of destruction" are we bringing? Have you not listened to anything in these videos? We pale in comparison to what the Earth went through in the past, and for the amount of time it did so!

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I would love to see Supercontinents and relative climate. I want to physically see how the continents moved with reference to what life forms were living on it during these periods. Thank you!

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On Curiosity Stream there is a great video series, The Rise of the Continents, that discusses this topic in detail.

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I'm currently reading "At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft, and all the plot about incredibly ancient times and beings just fueled my geological curiosity. I'm glad I found this channel!

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It is obligatory to also read, "Narrative of A. Gordon Pym".

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It's really funny IMHO, that Lovecraft's horror provoked an interest in geology.

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I'll also recommend The Shadow Out of Time on that subject. Although some of his ages are pretty off based on what we know nowadays. Still great as a cosmic horror story though.

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I teach Earth Science and I’d Love some videos that focus on the methods used by historical geologists like paleomagnetism, ice core sampling, radio metric dating, etc. THANKS! Love this channel!

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How does a species dna 🧬 just know to adapt and evolve? For example with the two fish where one of them just grew teeth. Like how did it know to do that?

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The DNA does not "know" how to adapt. There is no intentionality in evolution. The adaptation comes about as a result of natural selection of certain genotypes generation after generation. If an animal is more fit due to its genetic makeup, it will have more offspring. And so on... There is much more to this topic than I can type. @@chrisfern4699

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I love these longer form vids!

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What a strange world we live in, where 12 minutes is considered longform.

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Ian Buck He said longer, not long.

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Zez right, it all depends on what you compare it to. Compared to other documentaries about geologic history, it's quite short.

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Love how up-to-date this material is. Mentions the possibility of life in the Hadean Eon, amd the emerging realization that dinosaur extinction likely had multiple causes.

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I'd love to see more of geology explored and explained. There are always small snippets here and there, but it's hard to find a comprehensive video series that is educational, informative and entertaining. How are different layers formed, what kind of minerals do you find in those layers, how to identify them, etc etc. Information about different minerals and crystal formations and variations, distinctive traits and ways to identify them. Thank you!

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I loved it. I was really missing a presentation on the time scales so common in the videos. It should been the first video on the channel.

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Thanks for providing a history of the evolution of geologic time. Most people have no idea. I love how you touched on primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. Only the quaternary is the only one left.

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What a great way to describe. Like us who has never been able to have lesson about this but now it became so interesting. Thank goodness, KZbin is not boring anymore. Thanks a lot to all people who work on this from the bottom of my heart.

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Just another perspective, if you compressed earth's history into one day humans appear roughly 0.5sec before midnight

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My favourite time periods are "EONS".

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i really liked this episode, hope they continue the format of the time frame expansion

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What amazes me is the fact that life forms seem to "disappear" or get wiped out but then eventually life evolves and returns again, out of no where seemingly

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Life was never really wiped out of the Earth actually. In every single extinctions there must be some organisms (even if it's just 1% of all of the organisms that lived at that time) that survived and persisted that extinction and eventually evolve into something else and finally paved the way to the new life we know today. We have to thank those of our persistent ancestors whose survived those series of extinctions 😄 they paved the way for the livable ecosystem we know today.

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I cried and had goosebumps whilst watching the history of a little rock suspended on the space by gravity that sustains lifeforms. This is the most magical and poetic thing I have ever learnt in my life so far.

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This channel is doing wonders for kids who can't get an education this good in school!!

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I swear, this is one of my favorite channels!!!

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What an amazing channel! Too cool for school! But seriously, love how you condensed the whole story of earth!!!

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Wow this is such an intense amount of detail so quickly, brilliant, have to rewind a few times though.

[@TylerAbair]

Thanks for this video. Until now, the various "named chunks of time" were just something I tried to remember which animals and events were in. I had no idea that they were classified into such a satisfying hierarchy of scales! It's much easier to organize and understand this information now that I know that I realize epoch and period aren't interchangeable terms. Learning about Geologic Time has made geology significantly more interesting to me :D

[@TheBrendanMeister]

I love these videos that give a brief history of Earth, but I think it would be really cool if you guys did specific videos about extinct species, including interesting facts about their behavior, diet, and overall characteristics. I understand that not a lot is known about many prehistoric creatures, but I'd love to find what there is to know. Thanks for all the great videos!

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This is AWESOME, no matter how many times I read, listen or watch stuff about these things. Just incredible

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I love this channel it really teaches me a lot of facts about periods and what they are broken into also the history of earth.

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6:07 nice bill wurtz reference!

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I really enjoy the longer videos, and Blake does a great job at hosting!

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I am truly humbled by that last remark on how our bodies will be the next markers of our time on this rock. Love this channel so much!

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This series reminds me of my youth, reading At the Mountains of Madness for the first time. HPL sparked a lot of my fascination with geology and deep time.

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I spot a little mistake in this video at 5:38 when the presenters says "Aardvark" and the image shows a Brazilian Giant Anteater...

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i always confuse between the 2 lol

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Excellent! Look forward to future deep-dives into the timescale. Edit: I really enjoyed the longer format and the content was outstanding.

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I am unable to express in enough words just how much I loved this and these styled videos!! Really enjoy having this host. Funnily enough, around the time he asked us if we needed to cool down (around 9:30-ish), I most certainly did on account of having laksa while watching 😂. Thanks again for another intriguing and informative video PBS Eons!!

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The editing in this video is great! Every one of your videos has a very beautiful presentation.

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Awesome video! It's absolutely mind boggling to think of all that has existed before us and all we cannot possibly know. So, thank you for helping us learn what is known.

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6:08 now that’s a word you can hear 🎶 the Cambrian Explosion 🎶 Thanks for Bill Wurtz for that earworm, I’ll never be able to hear “the Cambrian Explosion” without hearing that little jazz riff and seeing that multicolored splash of text.

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Paleozoic ended with an extinction event, Mesozoic ended with a meteor, and they Cenozoic ended with nuclear warfare destroying the planet with deadly radioactive elements such as uranium and plutonium.

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@@tliltocatlalbopilosa1513 radiation would go away and probably after life will start again. Would take maybe a few million years.

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@@tliltocatlalbopilosa1513 I've read somewhere you could look at lifeforms in the desert to puzzle out how organisms would evolve in radioactive environments. Dehydration and strong sun is something that affects dna in a similiar way

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Great Video :) Really love the longer ones, and host is awesome !

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I would like to thank all of you for deciding to watch truly educational and fascinating videos that not a lot of people watch these days and I thank you for choosing this over some prank video.

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I absolutely loved this episode. I learn more from this channel than I do in geography class.

[@Sergioluis93]

I'm going to add my voice to the ones saying we love the longer videos. This has become now one of my favourite videos on your channel, not only because of the lenght, but also because of the topic. I wonder, after you do the one on periods, could you make some about epochs? Or maybe ancient ecosystems like the one on Hell's Creek (the one they're doing for Saurian the game). Anyway, awesome content. Thanks :)

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I would still like to see playlists of your existing videos sorted chronologically.

[@MoBot249]

Gotta hand it to you all. It's obvious you put a lot of time into this.

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I love all your videos! I love the way you summarized the gts, it was so much fun!

[@TerenceClark]

I would love to see an episode covering the Cenozoic in more detail. And a similar one on the Paleozoic would also be awesome. I feel like what paleontology education most people get, if they get one at all, is Cambrian Explosion ... dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs, dinosaurs ... something fuzzy about mammoths and ice ... today!! (tadaa!) Already I feel like you covered the Cenozoic and Paleozoic in more detail in this video than I got straight through until my undergrad Geology classwork. It would be absolutely amazing to give either era a more detailed look like I know the PBS Eons team can. Keep up the good work!

[@mattparker7932]

Love this video. The length is great and the content even better. My only complaint with this channel is that you guys always showed the geological time periods upside down (with the oldest time periods on top and the youngest on bottom). With this episode you finally flipped it correctly. I hope you stick with that! Great stuff. Keep it up!

[@morriganravenchild6613]

Another stunning information packed video. Have to watch it a couple of times to absorb it all. Thanks.

[@valhalla-tupiniquim]

I love this videos about Geology and Biology and everything together.

[@haricapra6886]

I love this series and look forward to it each Monday. In college I took a geology class in which e got to examine some fossils. There was a crystallized bone to a now extinct cephalopod that actually had bones. I've been incredibly fascinated by that ever since. What do we know about cephalopod evolution? Is there enough of a story there to make an episode?

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I absolutely love this channel. I wish I could mee the cast. You guys are great

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As a teenager I thought "hey, this is lame", now this seems like the coolest thing in the world. Great video!

[@dhutch71]

Started as a student in Geoscience in 1967, a few years before Plate Tectonics was fully accepted. During the early part of my career as a Petroleum Geologist in '79, the concepts of Sequence Stratigraphy became the norm. Then, in 1984, 3D Seismic was invented and made imaging the subsurface so much better. It was a great time to be a Geologist. Enjoyed the video presentation of Geologic Time - it's a difficult topic to cover well in 12 minutes, but you did a great job!

[@parkey5]

This was a brilliant episode. Loved watching this ❤️

[@polarisgemini52]

This was really helpful. I always get confused between these eras, and epochs and etc

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Used this video in a KZbin tutorial - love it! PBS Digital rocks!!

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Just came across these videos these are amazing! Thank you for all your hard work!

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Blake is an awesome host! Really liking this series so far =)

[@MsMauDau]

Thank you for making this video, really help me to understand the whole process in a very interesting way.

[@shalinitiwariscorner5210]

Learning natural history can teach us to be humble and understanding about our relationship with all that exists around us as well as our own existence inside the existing world.

[@kojimayuhay]

This video opened my mind, it transformed me through a humbling experience. To think that someday my bones/teeth and whatnot could be a fossil in some layer of rocks to be discovered millions of years after my death, it is just frightening and awesome at the same time.

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Totally wiped my forehead because there's some iridium on the left side

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M Hilmy Fauzi ❤️

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Best episode yet!

[@MelliaBoomBot]

That was very informative, I think the magnitude of it though for me was a bit much but has led me to finding a series of this. Fascinating.

[@Erlov71]

I know im getting old when i looked this up on my own and find all so fascinating.

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As a geologist student: fantastic video!

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This is wonderful! Going to put it into my biology curriculum. Thank you!

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Best overview of the topic I have seen until now

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i just love how easy he made it sound. Thank you. :)

[@InfectedChris]

I really like the longer videos. Maybe do a video on the changes of the continent, to the 7 we have now.

[@guyh.4553]

Or is it 8? Could we add Zoolandia to the mix??? 😁😁😁😁😁

[@fg3_elliott]

6:09 🎶 Cambrian Explosion 🎶 T H E S U N I S D E A D L Y L A S E R

[@garykuhre9508]

So much for the bibull... Thanks!

[@lilbrokenheart2153]

🎶not anymore there's, a blanket🎶 k this role play is pretty funny🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥💯💖

[@epauletshark3793]

Hey china's back together oh wait now its broken agaaaiiin.

[@Hullj]

To think of modern homo sapiens sapiens as index fossils for the future really was a humbling concept. It has shaken me up. It makes me want to rethink everything. And isn't that what education is about. This is a phenomenal, phenomenal series. I am so grateful to everyone involved in bringing this fruition.

[@salflores1202]

The planet is littered with our bones (graves). Whomever finds our remains will have full specimens. Crazy to think about.

[@epauletshark3793]

Any time I start watching eons, I binge for WAAAAAYYYY too long.

[@SomeMathematics]

I love this! I would love to know more about the Proterozoic eon and the boring billion years. I doubt they are actually boring, eukaryotes evolved during this time.

[@Malenassaura]

Even though I already knew everything (geology major), I still watched until the end. Congrats :)

[@guyh.4553]

Glad you didn't tell how it ended! Ha ha ha

[@guyh.4553]

Glad you didn't spoil the ending for me! Ha ha ha (Me too but Physical Geographer major. Took lots of geology courses as well)

[@hottenhamtopspurs2209]

@@guyh.4553 she doesn't care, mate.

[@matthewgromosky8082]

Bravo man! Bravo. That was so well done. This was a joy to watch and I subscribed to the channel!

[@cesaralcaraz819]

Phanerozoic Eon: exists Animals and Plants: It's free real estate

[@peickudeicku1493]

Phanerozoic Era exist Living Water Species: *Aight Imma head out*

[@thetessellater9163]

Please translate into human speak

[@kiarielizabeth854]

When the science teacher plays this and everyone in the class start yelling when he says "hell" 3:44

[@KieranGarland]

These videos are absolutely superb. Thank you!

[@dominicdhaag]

This is an amazing short overview. Thank so much! :D