Talk:3120: Geologic Periods - Revision history

2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:1C50:1599:69DC:1493 at 20:49, 25 December 2025

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31.30.164.107 at 21:45, 2 September 2025

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31.30.164.107 at 21:44, 2 September 2025

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92.17.62.87 at 20:44, 22 August 2025

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2A04:CEC0:1207:653F:1CE3:A4FF:FEB2:A5FE: Anthropocene?

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Anthropocene?

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2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC at 06:34, 29 July 2025

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PaulEberhardt at 20:54, 28 July 2025

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82.13.184.33 at 09:46, 28 July 2025

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	I'm not sure how widespread this is, but in older Czech literature at least, "Primary" is used to refer to the Paleozoic (Cambrian → Permian), "Secondary" to the Mesozoic (Triassic → Cretaceous), "Tertiary" to Paleogene and Neogene (Paleocene → Pliocene), "Quaternary" to, well, the Quaternary period (Pleistocene → Holocene). [[Special:Contributions/31.30.164.107\|31.30.164.107]] 21:45, 2 September 2025 (UTC)		I'm not sure how widespread this is, but in older Czech literature at least, "Primary" is used to refer to the Paleozoic (Cambrian → Permian), "Secondary" to the Mesozoic (Triassic → Cretaceous), "Tertiary" to Paleogene and Neogene (Paleocene → Pliocene), "Quaternary" to, well, the Quaternary period (Pleistocene → Holocene). [[Special:Contributions/31.30.164.107\|31.30.164.107]] 21:45, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
		+	:"Tertiary" and "Quaternary" are very widespread as of 20:49, 25 December 2025 (UTC), actually, but different languages used different ways to name the Phanerozoic's eras, and some even extended their era naming backwards. [[Special:Contributions/2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:1C50:1599:69DC:1493\|2001:4C4E:1C11:B800:1C50:1599:69DC:1493]] 20:49, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

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	:Or, by the time anyone can be sure, they will be far more sure that every anthropocentric idea of dividing up geologic time is critically wrong and there's a much better alternative method of dividing it all up, with completely different names. ;) 20:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)		:Or, by the time anyone can be sure, they will be far more sure that every anthropocentric idea of dividing up geologic time is critically wrong and there's a much better alternative method of dividing it all up, with completely different names. ;) 20:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

−	I'm not sure how widespread this is, but in older Czech literature at least, "Primary" is used to refer to the Paleozoic (Cambrian → Permian), "Secondary" to the Mesozoic (Triassic → Cretaceous), "Tertiary" to Paleogene and Neogene (Paleocene → Pliocene), "Quaternary" to, well, the Quaternary period (Pleistocene → Holocene).	+	I'm not sure how widespread this is, but in older Czech literature at least, "Primary" is used to refer to the Paleozoic (Cambrian → Permian), "Secondary" to the Mesozoic (Triassic → Cretaceous), "Tertiary" to Paleogene and Neogene (Paleocene → Pliocene), "Quaternary" to, well, the Quaternary period (Pleistocene → Holocene). [[Special:Contributions/31.30.164.107\|31.30.164.107]] 21:45, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

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	:The Quaternary is a geologic period, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The Anthropocene has been proposed (but never yet officially adopted) as an ''epoch'' being from various points 'post-Holocene' (an epoch that started after the start of the greater quaternary ''period''), the change-over being as late as the Trinity nuclear test (as the moment at which technogenic radionuclides started to be added to the environment). We are currently in the quaternary period ''and'' the subordinate epoch of your choice. Either still the holocene, or maybe at some point (best left to be argued with far more hindsight, presuming anyone cares to) we entered the anthropocene...		:The Quaternary is a geologic period, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The Anthropocene has been proposed (but never yet officially adopted) as an ''epoch'' being from various points 'post-Holocene' (an epoch that started after the start of the greater quaternary ''period''), the change-over being as late as the Trinity nuclear test (as the moment at which technogenic radionuclides started to be added to the environment). We are currently in the quaternary period ''and'' the subordinate epoch of your choice. Either still the holocene, or maybe at some point (best left to be argued with far more hindsight, presuming anyone cares to) we entered the anthropocene...
	:Or, by the time anyone can be sure, they will be far more sure that every anthropocentric idea of dividing up geologic time is critically wrong and there's a much better alternative method of dividing it all up, with completely different names. ;) 20:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)		:Or, by the time anyone can be sure, they will be far more sure that every anthropocentric idea of dividing up geologic time is critically wrong and there's a much better alternative method of dividing it all up, with completely different names. ;) 20:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	I'm not sure how widespread this is, but in older Czech literature at least, "Primary" is used to refer to the Paleozoic (Cambrian → Permian), "Secondary" to the Mesozoic (Triassic → Cretaceous), "Tertiary" to Paleogene and Neogene (Paleocene → Pliocene), "Quaternary" to, well, the Quaternary period (Pleistocene → Holocene).

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	And thus Velociraptors return after (according to the velociraptor category) 12 years of silence, all hail the great Deinonychus! [[User:Xkcdjerry\|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry\|talk]]) 12:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)		And thus Velociraptors return after (according to the velociraptor category) 12 years of silence, all hail the great Deinonychus! [[User:Xkcdjerry\|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry\|talk]]) 12:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

−	Isn't the Quaternary also called "Anthropocene"? It's a really anthropocentric name, but the definition of the period is "since the advent of man". You can't get more anthropocentric than the Quaternary, or Anthropocene!	+	Isn't the Quaternary also called "Anthropocene"? It's a really anthropocentric name, but the definition of the period is "since the advent of man". You can't get more anthropocentric than the Quaternary, or Anthropocene! {{unsigned\|2a04:cec0:1207:653f:1ce3:a4ff:feb2:a5fe\|16:31, 22 August 2025}}
		+	:The Quaternary is a geologic period, from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The Anthropocene has been proposed (but never yet officially adopted) as an ''epoch'' being from various points 'post-Holocene' (an epoch that started after the start of the greater quaternary ''period''), the change-over being as late as the Trinity nuclear test (as the moment at which technogenic radionuclides started to be added to the environment). We are currently in the quaternary period ''and'' the subordinate epoch of your choice. Either still the holocene, or maybe at some point (best left to be argued with far more hindsight, presuming anyone cares to) we entered the anthropocene...
		+	:Or, by the time anyone can be sure, they will be far more sure that every anthropocentric idea of dividing up geologic time is critically wrong and there's a much better alternative method of dividing it all up, with completely different names. ;) 20:44, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

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	And thus Velociraptors return after (according to the velociraptor category) 12 years of silence, all hail the great Deinonychus! [[User:Xkcdjerry\|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry\|talk]]) 12:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)		And thus Velociraptors return after (according to the velociraptor category) 12 years of silence, all hail the great Deinonychus! [[User:Xkcdjerry\|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry\|talk]]) 12:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Isn't the Quaternary also called "Anthropocene"? It's a really anthropocentric name, but the definition of the period is "since the advent of man". You can't get more anthropocentric than the Quaternary, or Anthropocene!

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	: Whatever the inspiration, Randall has been using the table as a comic device for a powerful long time, see the category Charts on this wiki, and i.a. the comics 181: Interblag (20061108) and 394: Kilobyte (20080310). [[Special:Contributions/2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC\|2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC]] 06:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)		: Whatever the inspiration, Randall has been using the table as a comic device for a powerful long time, see the category Charts on this wiki, and i.a. the comics 181: Interblag (20061108) and 394: Kilobyte (20080310). [[Special:Contributions/2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC\|2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC]] 06:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	And thus Velociraptors return after (according to the velociraptor category) 12 years of silence, all hail the great Deinonychus! [[User:Xkcdjerry\|Xkcdjerry]] ([[User talk:Xkcdjerry\|talk]]) 12:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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 :That would be obvious and could explain his dislike mentioned above. Lots of animals would have died during this event. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 09:07, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
-I have never before contemplated the possibility of trilobites having riz! :) However, young women cosplaying as My Little Pony characters on social media? Definite riz. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 03:20, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
+I have deleted my previous comment, as it was in response to text in the Explanation that no longer exists. [[User:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For]] ([[User talk:These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For|talk]]) 03:00, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
 Randall is wrong - parisitoid wasps are ''very'' cool. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33|82.13.184.33]] 08:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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	If y'all disagree with my docutainment interpretation, feel free to erase it again of course, but the common denominator in Randall's table here really ''is'' each period's entertainment value as a focal point. Also, I'd like to add that it's not a bad thing at all for a documentary to be entertaining; quite the opposite. For example, I might never have studied geography if it wasn't for films about interesting foreign places and cool-looking books about volcanoes and dinosaurs and weather, all of which I devoured in my childhood. [[User:PaulEberhardt\|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt\|talk]]) 20:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)		If y'all disagree with my docutainment interpretation, feel free to erase it again of course, but the common denominator in Randall's table here really ''is'' each period's entertainment value as a focal point. Also, I'd like to add that it's not a bad thing at all for a documentary to be entertaining; quite the opposite. For example, I might never have studied geography if it wasn't for films about interesting foreign places and cool-looking books about volcanoes and dinosaurs and weather, all of which I devoured in my childhood. [[User:PaulEberhardt\|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt\|talk]]) 20:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	: Whatever the inspiration, Randall has been using the table as a comic device for a powerful long time, see the category Charts on this wiki, and i.a. the comics 181: Interblag (20061108) and 394: Kilobyte (20080310). [[Special:Contributions/2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC\|2605:59C8:160:DB08:8552:7338:3C0A:5AFC]] 06:34, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

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	The Quaternary is obviously so called because it's the period of Quatermass. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:46, 28 July 2025 (UTC)		The Quaternary is obviously so called because it's the period of Quatermass. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:46, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	If y'all disagree with my docutainment interpretation, feel free to erase it again of course, but the common denominator in Randall's table here really ''is'' each period's entertainment value as a focal point. Also, I'd like to add that it's not a bad thing at all for a documentary to be entertaining; quite the opposite. For example, I might never have studied geography if it wasn't for films about interesting foreign places and cool-looking books about volcanoes and dinosaurs and weather, all of which I devoured in my childhood. [[User:PaulEberhardt\|PaulEberhardt]] ([[User talk:PaulEberhardt\|talk]]) 20:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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	Randall is wrong - parisitoid wasps are ''very'' cool. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 08:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)		Randall is wrong - parisitoid wasps are ''very'' cool. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 08:14, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	The Quaternary is obviously so called because it's the period of Quatermass. [[Special:Contributions/82.13.184.33\|82.13.184.33]] 09:46, 28 July 2025 (UTC)