Carboniferous (358.9 +/-0.4 Ma)
Back to Time ScaleRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- 60 / 15 / 30 / 0 (Commission for the Geological Map of the World)
- Color RGB
- R: 103 G: 165 B: 153
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Period
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Karbon
- Français
- Carbonifère
- Italiano
- Carbonifero
- English
- Carboniferous (358.9 +/-0.4 Ma)
- Historical Variants
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Karbon, Steinkohlenzeit, Terrain houiller (Brongniart 1829), 4e Etage = Carboniférien (Greppin 1866)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
- Units at roof
Material and varia
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Pennsylvanian (323.2 +/-0.4 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the Pennsylvania state (USA).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
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Late Carboniferous epoch.
- Age
- Bashkirian
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Late Pennsylvanian (307.0 +/-0.1 Ma)
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Subepoch
- Status
- valid
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Gzhelian (303.7 +/-0.1 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the village of Gzhel = Gjel (Russia), 50 km SE Moscow.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
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Kasimovian (307.0 +/-0.1 Ma)
- Name Origin
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Named after the town of Kasimov (Russia).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
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Middle Pennsylvanian (315.2 +/-0.2 Ma)
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Subepoch
- Status
- valid
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Early Pennsylvanian (323.2 +/-0.4 Ma)
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Subepoch
- Status
- valid
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Mississippian (358.9 +/-0.4 Ma)
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Epoch
- Status
- valid formal name