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14 -8 Billion

Creation Week

5810

0

8-4.57 Billion unnamed 5810-5344 0-466

4.57-3.8 Billion

Hadean

5344-5114

466-696

3.8 - 2.5 billion

Archean

5114-4594

696-1216

2.5 Bil -  900 Mil

Early Proterozoic

4594-3677

1216-2133
900 -600 million Cryogenian 3677-3460 2133-2350

CATASTROPHE 1 730 million

"Snowball Earth"
Noah's Flood
 3554 BC 2256

600-542 million

Ediacaran

3460-3418

2350-2392

542 - 488 million

Cambrian

3418-3377

2392-2433

488-443 million

Ordovician

3377-3342

2433-2468

443 - 416 million

Silurian

3342-3321

2468-2489

416 - 359 million

Devonian

3321-3277

2489-2533

359 - 299 million

Carboniferous

3277-3231

2533-2579

299 - 251 million Permian 3231-3182 2579-2628

Catastrophe 2
251 million

Permian Extinction
Babel Catastrophe

3182

2628

251 - 200 million

Triassic

3182-3139

2628-2671

200 - 146 million

Jurassic

3139- 3092

2671-2718

146 - 65.5 million Cretaceous 3092- 3023 2718-2787

Catastrophe 3
65.5 million

K/T Extinction Peleg division begins

3023 is start

2787 is start

65.5 - 23 million

Tertiary-Paleogene

3023-2988

2787-2822

23 - 1.81 million

Tertiary-Neogene

2988-2864

2822-2946

2.6 million

Ice Age starts Time of Job

c. 2900 BC

2910

1.81 million - 2345BC

Quaternary

2864-2345

2946-3465

 
 

Archaeozoic Era   (Creation Week to Catastrophe 1)

Calendar years - 2256 years long (Ediacaran not included)

Atomic years - (from Hadean on) - 3.9 billion years long (Ediacaran not included)
Note: The Ediacaran Period has been inserted above to conform to standard revised geology

At initial point of creation, light speed 6.25 x 1011  times current speed.   At the end of Creation Week, it was down to 340 million times its current speed.

Closes with Catastrophe One:  Noah's Flood/ 'Snowball Earth'/ axis tilt of earth -- (Note: secular geology is currently revising the dates and classifications of this time to include the Ediacaran, so although it is after the Flood, it is included in this section)

At the close of this era, light speed now about 1.38 million times current speed.  

 
 

Paleozoic Era (Cambrian to Permian)

Calendar years - 372 years long

Atomic Years - 479 million years long  

Closes with Catastrophe Two:  The Destruction of the Tower of Babel/ the Permian Extinction  

At the close of this era, the speed of light was 1.2 million times its current speed.  

 
 

Mesozoic Era   (Triassic to Cretaceous)

Calendar Years - 159 years long

Atomic Years - 185.5 million years long

Closes with Catastrophe Three: Days of Peleg/ Continental Division/ Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction/ higher axis tilt

Light speed at the close of this era:  about 1.13 million times its current speed  

 
 

Cenozoic Era   (Paleogene to Quaternary, to the end of the Ice Age)

Calendar years - about 678 years long

Atomic years - about 65.5 million years long

speed of light curve flat enough to show oscillation now

 

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