Timescales for all

So I’ve been playing around a bit with my mini timescale, and it is now available in two flavours, the original, but improved, right to left orientation:

timescalea.jpg

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and the all-new left to right version, which I have to concede might indeed be ‘better’:

timescaleb.jpg

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For those that want to use this on their own blogs, the EPS files I link to can be imported into programs like CorelDraw and Illustrator, so you can modify the red locator bar (and anything else) to suit before exporting an all-new jpeg.
As for this blog, which one do you prefer?
Update: In answer to Brian’s question below, this chart was based on the information from the webpage of the International Commision of Statigraphy, specifically this page (you can also download a pdf chart here ).
Further update: Just to be clear, anyone who finds these figures useful is welcome to use them for any (non-commercial) purpose that they like. Attribution would be nice where practical, but I won’t be sending in the faceless copyright zombies if you don’t.

Categories: bloggery, deep time, geology

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