Earth Timeline: an interactive globe of Earth through 540 million years

Earth Timeline

540 million years on one slider

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Earth Timeline540 million years on one slider

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Moments

From the Cambrian seas to today

1. 540 MaCambrian seas
2. 445 MaOrdovician ice
3. 385 MaFirst forests
4. 300 MaPangaea and the Carboniferous ice
5. 252 MaThe Great Dying
6. 180 MaPangaea splits
7. 90 MaCretaceous seaway
8. 66 MaChicxulub impact
9. 50 MaIndia meets Asia
10. 34 MaAntarctica freezes
11. 3 MaPanama closes
12. 2.6 MaIce ages begin
13. 120 kaLast Interglacial
14. 21 kaLast Glacial Maximum
15. 8 kaDoggerland drowns
16. TodayTodayEarth now, from NOAA's ETOPO 2022 relief data.

Quaternary

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