Phanerozoic eon (English spelling)

Japanese: Phanerozoic eon(英語表記)Phanerozoiceon
Phanerozoic eon (English spelling)

…a division of geological time; the first epoch of the Phanerozoic eons. In terms of time, it corresponds to approximately 342 million years from about 590 million years ago to about 248 million years ago.

From the Precambrian Period

…Some people consider the Precambrian period to be about 4 billion years before the birth of the Earth, but the Precambrian period is called the 3.4 billion years from 3.8 to 4 billion years ago, which is the age of the oldest rocks that can be studied on Earth, and the period before that is called the Pregeological Era. The Paleozoic and later geological periods are called the Phanerozoic eon because of the abundant fossil evidence, while the Precambrian period was called the Cryptozoic eon, but this term is rarely used today. In 1872, American JD Dana defined the geological system of gneiss and granite formed before the Cambrian period as the Archean Era. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Phanerozoic eon" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…地質時代の一区分で,顕生累代Phanerozoic eons最初の代。年代でいうと,今から約5億9000万年前から約2億4800万年前までの,およそ3億4200万年間に相当する。…

【先カンブリア時代】より

…地球の誕生の45億年前までの約40億年を先カンブリア時代とする考えもあるが,地球上で研究できる最古の岩石の年齢である38億~40億年前に至る約34億年を先カンブリア時代とよび,それ以前の時代を先地質時代として区別する。古生代およびそれ以降の地質時代は化石の証拠が豊富であるところから顕生代Phanerozoic eonとよばれるのに対し,先カンブリア時代は隠(陰)生代Cryptozoic eonとされたが,この語は現在はほとんど使われない。1872年,アメリカのJ.D.デーナがカンブリア時代以前に形成された片麻岩や花コウ岩などの地質系統を太古界とした。…

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