The Geological Timescale is split into fours Eras. These are broadly obvious from significant transitions between sequences of sedimentary formations. The Precambrian is obviously very different to everything above it.
Eras, Periods and Epochs
The Iridium Anomaly
We finished a step-by-step deconstruction of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic, but there’s another issue that we’re going to account for: the Iridium anomaly.
Firmament 20
<< Previous | Home >> Genesis 7:11, 8:2 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. The fountains also of the deep and the windows …
August 19th
40 days and nights of rain ended when the windows of heaven closed, causing a shower of Iridium rich shocked quartz and weathered glass beads to fall along with the last of the rain: the Noah's flood Iridium anomaly.
The Firmament Rabbit Trail
One of our favorite ways to study the Bible is to follow a doctrine through from the first time it's mentioned to the last. This is a great way to develop understanding of the doctrine in the broad narrative of scripture.
March 25th
A major transition in the condition of planet Earth, like its interior changing from Tehom to Sheol, has to be in the Bible somewhere. We (me and the Holy spirit) found it in Amos 7:4.