Deep time: 4.5 billion years of Earth

Earth's history on one line, from its formation to a single second in 1969. Eons and eras are durations in the colours of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart; times are exact offsets from 2000 CE, shown in millions of years.

17 moments · -4540 million years – -0.000030448 million years · by @athan · @athan

Early life: stromatolites

-3480 million years

Microbial mats in the Dresser Formation, Western Australia: some of the oldest widely accepted evidence of life.