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COOPER RIVER DIVE CHARTERS

Historic Resources of the Cooper River, ca. 1670-ca. 1950

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Geologic Time Line

ERA	PERIOD	sub-PRD	EPOCH	sub	STAGE [alternate]	myBP¹
C E N O Z O I C	Quaternary		Holocene			0.01
	Quaternary		Pleistocene		Calabrian	1.81
	Tertiary	Neogene	Pliocene	Late	Gelasian	2.59
				Mid	Piacenzian	3.60
				Early	Zanclean	5.33
			Miocene	Late	Messinian	7.25
					Tortonian	11.61
					Serravallian	13.65
				Mid	Langhian	15.97
				Early	Burdigalian	20.43
				Early	Aquitanian	23.03
		Paleogene	Oligocene		Chattian	28.4
			Oligocene	Early	Rupelian [Stampian]	33.9
			Eocene	Late	Priabonian [Auversion]	37.2
				Mid	Bartonan	40.4
				Mid	Lutetian	48.6
				Early	Ypresian	55.8
			Palaeocene	Late	Thanetian	58.7
				Late	Selandian	61.7
				Early	Danian	65.5
M E S O Z O I C	Cretaceous	Upper			Maastrichtian	70.6
					Campanian	83.5
					Santonian	85.8
					Coniacian	89.3
					Turonian	93.5
					Cenomanian	99.6
		Lower			Albian	112.0
					Aptian	125.0
					Barremian	130.0
					Hauterivian	136.4
					Valanginian	140.2
					Berriasian	145.5
	Jurrasic	Upper			Tithonian	150.8
					Kimmeridgian	155.7
					Oxfordian	161.2
		Middle			Callovian	164.7
					Bathonian	167.7
					Bajocian	171.6
					Aalenian	175.6
		Lower			Toarcian	183.0
					Pliensbachian	189.6
					Sinemurian	196.5
					Hettangian	199.6
	Triassic	Late			Rhaetian	203.6
					Norian	216.5
					Carnian	228.0
		Middle			Landinian	237.0
		Middle			Anisian	245.0
		Early			Olenekian	249.7
		Early			Induan	251.0

Based upon Geological Time Scale 2004 (Gradstein & Ogg 2005).

1	Begining date (in millions of years before present) of each stage.

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