Talk:Geological Timescale

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What's up with that lone cell at the bottom of the table, which contains a {/table} tag and nothing but? I am reluctant to mess with this table, seeing as how it's go so many rowspan attributes to make it interesting... -- Cubist

The wiki parser tries to correct badly nested or unclosed HTML, but this sometimes results in oddities like this where it de-HTMLizes the final </table> tag, because there's a broken tag somewhere in the middle that sets things off-kilter. I've corrected some misnested tags which seems to have cleared it up. --Brion

I don't think that blue text on blue background is a good idea... but I'm not a color crack. Could someone change this? -- Thomas Kettenring

To Brion: Thanks! To Kettenring: Blue-on-blue isn't necessarily an unreadable color combination for text -- it depends critically on how different the two "blue"s are -- but that said, there are definitely lots of color comboes which would be better. As it happens, I am a bit of a color crank (and general graphics wonk), so I shall see what I can do about colorizing the thing in a safe and sane manner... -- Cubist

Something messed up here. I get white text boxes w/ dashed borders in several places that aren't formatted right ... a couple are empty. When I view the source for the page I see preformat tags on the left margin. These don't show up in the edit screen? I copied it into my html editor and fiddled a bit - was able to fix that, but lost the double width, so didn't save my fiddling. --VLS 04:32, 15 Aug 2004 (BST)

OK - got it.--VLS 14:19, 15 Aug 2004 (BST)

revision of names and dates

should the dates and names be revised to match the 'Geologic Time Scale 2004'?

PDFs of the latest timescales can be dowlaoded here: http://www.stratigraphy.org/down.htm

Some scientists speculate there may have been life in the hadean and also the molecular clock's date for the first organism is 4 Bya which is well into the hadean eon should we include that in our Geological Timescale?--Fang 23 20:24, 5 January 2007 (UTC)fang23

I say we split the Cenozoic into both the Tertiary and the Quaternary on one side and the Palaeogene and the Neogene on the other side, because both terms are still in common use. - Procyon

Aren't Tertiary and Paleogene, as well as Quaternary and Neogene respectively synonyms?--Mr A. 20:39, 22 July 2008 (BST)