The Late Heavy Bombardment (abbreviated LHB and also known as the
lunar cataclysm) is an event thought to have occurred approximately 4.1 to
3.8 billion years (Ga) ago,
Geological Time Scale
The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to
time
Geological Time Scale Layers of the Earth
he Earth's Layers Lesson #1 The Four Layers. The Crust. The Mantle. Convection Currents. Outer Core. Inner Core.
Stratigraph
the branch of geology concerned with the order and relative position of strata and their relationship
to the geological time scale.
Fossil Record
history of life as documented by fossils, the remains or imprints of the organisms from earlier
geological periods preserved in sedimentary rock
Relative Dating
Relative dating is the science of determining therelative order of past events (i.e., the age of an
object in comparison to another), without necessarily determining their absolute age
Absolute Dating
Absolute dating is the process of determining an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and
geology