Template:Geological history of Earth/doc

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Usage guideline

By consensus at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geology, this template should only be used on the articles about geological time periods that it links to. It should not be used in categories, nor for extinct taxa, nor geological formations.

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References

Cohen, K.M.; Finney, S.C.; Gibbard, P.L.; Fan, J.-X. (2013). "The ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart" (PDF). 2017/02. pp. 199–204.
U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Names Committee. "Divisions of Geologic Time—Major Chronostratigraphic and Geochronologic Units" (PDF). USGS. Fact Sheet 2007-3015. Retrieved 10 March 2013.