A dataset containing the boundary ages, abbreviations, and colors for the epochs of the Geologic Time Scale. Based on The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2024/12), by Cohen, Finney, Gibbard, and Fan.
epochs
A data frame with 34 rows and 5 variables:
epoch name
maximum age, in millions of years
minimum age, in millions of years
epoch name abbreviations
the colors for each epoch, according to the Commission for the Geological Map of the World
the label colors for each epoch, either white or black, whichever has better contrast with the background color, based on recommendations by the International Telecommunication Union
Other built-in timescales:
eons
,
eras
,
periods
,
stages