History of Earth: geologic time

Layers of rock, and the fossils found within them, formed over long stretches of time and can show how a landscape changed, a layer with seashell fossils above a layer with land-plant fossils, for example, suggests that area was once underwater. Scientists use this same kind of evidence from rock layers all over the world to organize Earth's entire 4.6-billion-year history into a timeline, called the geologic time scale, without needing to know the exact names of every time period.

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