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History of the Earth - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Mold
      - Trace
      - Cast
      - True Form
    - - Permineralization (petrification)
      - Carbonization
      - Unaltered Preservation
      - Replacement
      - Authigenic Preservation
      - Recrystalization
  - - - Period (one hundred million years)
      - Epoch (tens of million years)
      - Era (several hundred million years)
      - Age (millions of years)
      - Eon (half a billion years)
    - - Precambrian
        
        Archean Eon
        
        Proterozoic Eon
        
        Hadean Eon
      - Phanerozoic
        
        Paleozoic Era
        
        Mesozoic Era
        
        Cenozoic Era
  - - - Potassium-40
      - Rubidium-87
      - Uranium-238
      - Carbon-14
    - - Igneous rocks
      - metamorphic rocks
- - - - Rock layers are deposited horizontally
    - - Rock layers are continuous horizontally
      - Can be disrupted or displaced by geological events
    - - Youngest rocks are at the top
      - older are at the bottom
      - Fundamental Principle
    - - Intrusions
      - Folds
      - Faults
      - They are younger than the rock they cut through
  - - - erosional surface
    - - Igneous and sedimentary
      - Metamorphic or sedimentary
    - - Tilted
      - Eroded
    - - Parallel
      - No erosion events