Age (geology)

Short description: Subdivision of geologic time

Units in geochronology and stratigraphy[1] Segments of rock (strata) in chronostratigraphy | Time spans in geochronology | Notes to
geochronological units

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Eonothem | Eon | 4 total, half a billion years or more
Erathem | Era | 10 defined, several hundred million years
System | Period | 22 defined, tens to ~one hundred million years
Series | Epoch | 34 defined, tens of millions of years
Stage | Age | 99 defined, millions of years
Chronozone | Chron | subdivision of an age, not used by the ICS timescale

A geologic age is a subdivision of geologic time that divides an epoch into smaller parts. A succession of rock strata laid down in a single age on the geologic timescale is a stage.

## See also

* List of geochronologic names

## References

1. ↑ Cohen, K.M.; Finney, S.; Gibbard, P.L. (2015), International Chronostratigraphic Chart, International Commission on Stratigraphy, http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2015-01.pdf .

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