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  1. A Summary of Earth's History

    A Summary of Earth's History. The Precambrian. The vast unit of time known as the Precambrian started with the origin of the earth about 4.5 billion years ago and ended 570 million years ago. Largely thought to be a hot, steaming, and forbidding landscape, the primitive crust of the newly condensed planet continued to cool.

  2. Formation of Earth

    noun. an opening in the Earth's crust, through which lava, ash, and gases erupt, and also the cone built by eruptions. Our planet began as part of a cloud of dust and gas. It has evolved into our home, which has an abundance of rocky landscapes, an atmosphere that supports life, and oceans filled with mysteries.

  3. History of Earth

    Earth's history with time-spans of the eons to scale. The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day. Nearly all branches of natural science have contributed to understanding of the main events of Earth's past, characterized by constant geological change and biological evolution.. The geological time scale (GTS), as defined by international ...

  4. A Brief History of Earth

    Most of this initial heat still exists inside the Earth. The Hadean was originally defined as the birth of the planet occurring 4.0 billion years ago and preceding the existence of many rocks and life forms. However, geologists have dated minerals at 4.4 billion years, with evidence that liquid water was present.

  5. PDF Origin and Evolution of Earth

    E. arth is an active place. Earthquakes rip along plate boundaries, volcanoes spew fountains of molten lava, and mountain ranges and seabed are constantly created and destroyed. Earth scientists have long been concerned with deciphering the history—and predicting the future—of this active planet.

  6. geologic history of Earth

    From the point at which the planet first began to form, the history of Earth spans approximately 4.6 billion years. The oldest known rocks—the faux amphibolites of the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt in Quebec, Canada—however, have an isotopic age of 4.28 billion years. There is in effect a stretch of approximately 300 million years for which ...

  7. The Formation of Planet Earth

    The Birth of Earth. The Story of Our Planet's Formation. An artist's concept of what the early solar system looked like, some 4.5 billion years ago. The Sun was surrounded by a cloud of gas, dust, and rocky particles that slowly built up protoplanets to become planets, asteroids, and moons. NASA.

  8. Evolution of Earth

    At that time--4.44 billion to 4.41 billion years ago--Earth began to retain its atmosphere and create its core. This possibility had already been suggested by Bruce R. Doe and Robert E. Zartman of ...

  9. Earth

    Earth is the planet we live on, one of eight planets in our solar system and the only known place in the universe to support life.. Earth is the third planet from the sun, after Mercury and Venus, and before Mars.It is about 150 million kilometers (about 93 million miles) from the sun. This distance, called an astronomical unit (AU), is a standard unit of measurement in astronomy.

  10. Planet Earth facts and information

    The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the fifth largest planet in our solar system, and it's ...

  11. Life

    Life - Evolution, History, Earth: The evidence is overwhelming that all life on Earth has evolved from common ancestors in an unbroken chain since its origin. Darwin's principle of evolution is summarized by the following facts. All life tends to increase: more organisms are conceived, born, hatched, germinated from seed, sprouted from spores, or produced by cell division (or other means ...

  12. Earth Timeline: A Guide to Earth's Geological History and Events

    Earth's Timeline and History. 4,567,000,000 years ago, Earth was covered in molten lava. Earth was completely unrecognizable. In its earliest stage of formation, it was uninhabitable as it clumped from a cloud of dust. About 1,000,000,000 years ago, Earth had its first signs of life. Single-celled organisms consumed the sun's energy.

  13. A Brief History of Earth: How it All Began

    A series exploring the natural history of Earth, beginning with the formation of our Solar System, moving on through asteroid impacts and mass extinctions, and ending with the human impact on the ...

  14. 3: The Origin and Structure of Earth

    To understand the geological processes occurring in the ocean, it is important to recognize some of the phenomena that led to the formation and structure of the Earth. In this chapter we will start at the very beginning, with a discussion of the Big Bang and the origin of the universe and our solar system. From there, we will investigate the ...

  15. The History of Earth in Exactly 2000 Words • Earth.com

    4 - 2.5 billion years ago. The Archean Eon wasn't nearly as violent as the Hadean, but Earth still wasn't a place you would want to visit. After the late heavy bombardment, the crust of the earth was able to solidify into a rock, rather than magma. Earth had no atmosphere and the land was completely inhospitable.

  16. An Essay towards a Natural History of the Earth

    For the physician and natural historian John Woodward (c.1655-1728), fossils were the key to unlocking the mystery of the Earth's past, which he attempted to do in this controversial work, first published in 1695 and here reissued in the 1723 third edition.

  17. Essay on the Theory of the Earth, 1813

    ABSTRACT. Based at the Parisian Museum of Natural History, Cuvier was able to compare the fossil bones he dug from the quarries of Montmartre with those of animals alive today. Guided by the principle of correlation, that all the parts of an animal must cohere, and by analogy, with living species, Cuvier boldly reconstructed extinct creatures ...

  18. Essay on Earth for Students and Children

    500 Words Essay On Earth. The earth is the planet that we live on and it is the fifth-largest planet. It is positioned in third place from the Sun. This essay on earth will help you learn all about it in detail. Our earth is the only planet that can sustain humans and other living species. The vital substances such as air, water, and land make ...

  19. Essay on the Theory of the Earth

    History of Science, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, General Science. ... Essay on the Theory of the Earth was the last work of the scientific writer Robert Kerr who translated it from the introductory essay of George Cuvier's four-volume Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes. ... Book summary page views Book summary page ...

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  21. An essay towards a natural history of the earth

    An essay towards a natural history of the earth by Woodward, John, 1665-1728. Publication date 1978 Topics Geology -- Early works to 1800, Mineralogy -- Early works to 1800, Physical geology -- Early works to 1800 Publisher New York : Arno Press Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled

  22. The Story of Earth and Life Full Summary

    Trillions of tons of debris blast out into space. Over the course of a thousand years, gravity worked its magic and turned the debris into a ring made up of hot rock surrounding the Earth. That's how the formation of the moon began. Around 3.9 billion years ago, a hail of meteors fell upon the Earth.

  23. An Essay on the Origin and Evolution of the Planet Earth

    Origin and Evolution of Earth The earth is an active place. Earthquakes tear along plate boundaries, volcanoes erupt a molten lava fountain, and mountain ranges and undersea are constantly created and destroyed. Earth scientists have long been interested in deciphering the history of this a...

  24. Characteristics and changes of glacial lakes and outburst floods

    Warmer temperatures enhance formation of glacial lakes that can suddenly and catastrophically release as a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), threatening downstream lives and infrastructure. This ...

  25. Figures at a glance

    How many refugees are there around the world? At least 108.4 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes. Among them are nearly 35.3 million refugees, around 41 per cent of whom are under the age of 18.. There are also millions of stateless people, who have been denied a nationality and lack access to basic rights such as education, health care, employment and freedom ...

  26. What we actually know about aliens, according to science

    4367. GREEN BANK, W.Va. — It came from space, hurtling at tremendous speed: a mystery object, reddish, rocky, shaped like a cigar. Its velocity was so extreme it had to have come from somewhere ...