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Name

Geological Timescale vocabulary

alternativ Name

Web 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

Disciplines

Geology, Paleontology

Keywords

chronostratigraphy, chronostratigraphic time, geochronology, units