| Stratigraphic Boundary [35] [38] [39] [42] [46] [56] [57] | Age (Ma) [35] [38] [39] [42] [46] [56] [57] | Plate track change (Ma) [21] | Event Mechanism [2] [3] [8] [9] [20] [21] [55] [57] [58] | Loss of (% Biodiversity) [2] [55] [56] [57] [58] |
| Anthropocene | 1950-2010 A.D. |
| Progressive exploitation and combustion of fossil resources | 18 |
| Latest Holocene | 1750-1950 A.D. before |
| Industrial Revolution | 9 3 |
| Early Holocene | 9500 y B.P. |
| Impact, Tektites |
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| Pliocene (Zancleum/Piacencium) | 3.6 - 3.0 |
| Increasing cooling in Europe (Glaciation) | 6 |
| Miocene | 15.0 |
| Ries-Impact (25 kmø) | ? |
| Eocene/Oligocene | 33.75 | 34.6 | Popigai Imp. (100 kmø) Chesapeake impact, (85 kmø) et al. | 12 |
| Cretaceous/Tertiary (= KPgB) | 66.043 | 66.25 | Chicxulub Impact, Deccan Traps, Oceanic Arcs’ Volc. | 39 |
| Campanian/Maastrichtian | 70.6 | 73.5 | Caribbean Arc Volc. | ? |
| Albian/Cenomanian | 98.9 | 98 | Opening of the S Atlantic: Super Plume Volcanism, Hot Spot Tristan da Cunha, Paraňa/Etendeka Flood Basalt | 13 |
| Aptian/Albian | 112.2 | 113 | 13 | |
| Barremian/Aptian | 121 | 119 |
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| Hauterivian/ Barremian | 127 | 125 | 12 | |
| Valangian/Hauterivian | 132 | 131 | 7 | |
| Berriasian/Valangian | 137 | 135.1 |
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| Tithonian/Berriasian | 142 |
| Mountain building, Greece; hiatus and volcanism, Levante | 13 |
| Norian/Upper Triassic | 211 - 207 | 208 | Manicouagan impact (100 kmø) | 34 |
| Permian/Triassic | 251 | 250 | Siberian Flood B. | 70/90 |
| Frasne/Famenne | 374.5 | 368 | Siljan (60 kmø) | 24 |
| Ordovician/Silurian | 443.7 | 441 439 | Lockne (13.5 kmø), Sweden et al. | 46 |