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Introduction -- Chronostratigraphy: linking time and rock -- Biostratigraphy: time scales from graphic and quantitative methods -- Earth's orbital parameters and cycle stratigraphy -- The geomagnetic polarity time scale -- Radiogenic isotope geochronology -- Strontium isotope stratigraphy -- Geomathematics -- The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic eons -- Toward a "natural" Precambrian time scale -- The Cambrian period -- The Ordovician period -- The Silurian period -- The Devonian period -- The Carboniferous period -- The Permian period -- The Triassic period -- The Jurassic period -- The Cretaceous period -- The Paleogene period -- The Neogene period -- The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs -- Construction and summary of the geologic time scale.