Geological Timescale vocabulary

Name: Geological Timescale vocabulary
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Source Document Link: http://resource.geosciml.org/vocabulary/timescale/gts2018
Description: RDF representation of the Geologic Time Scale, as defined in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart (ICC) from the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). The ICC embraces both chronostratigraphic (time-rock) units and their equivalent geochronologic (geologic-time) units, the former being related to the ‘Stratigraphic points’ referred to below, and the latter (geochronologic units) being employed in this RDF representation.
Type: vocabulary
Used by Disciplines: Geology, Paleontology
Keywords: chronostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic time, geochronology, units

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