stages {deeptime}R Documentation

Stage data from the International Commission on Stratigraphy (v2022/10)

Description

A dataset containing the boundary ages, abbreviations, and colors for the stages of the Geologic Time Scale. Based on The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart (v2022/10), by Cohen, Finney, Gibbard, and Fan.

Usage

stages

Format

A data frame with 102 rows and 5 variables:

name

stage name

max_age

maximum age, in millions of years

min_age

minimum age, in millions of years

abbr

stage name abbreviations

color

the colors for each stage, according to the Commission for the Geological Map of the World

Source

https://stratigraphy.org via https://macrostrat.org/api/v2/defs/intervals?timescale=international%20ages

See Also

Other timescales: eons, epochs, eras, periods


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