Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Représentation et statut

Couleur CMYK

50 / 20 / 65 / 0 (Commission for the Geological Map of the World)

Couleur RGB

R: 127 G: 160 B: 86

Rang

Période chronostratigraphique

Usage

Ce terme est en usage.

Status

terme formel valide

Nomenclature

Deutsch

Kambrium

Français

Cambrien

Italiano

Cambriano

English

Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Origine du nom

Derived from the Latinised form of the Welsh name Cymru (Wales).

Variantes historiques

--- (Sedgwick 1835-1836), Silurique inférieur = Cambrium (Mayer-Eymar 1888), Kambrium

Remarques nomenclatoriales

From the Old Welsh combrog = compatriot.

According to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the first part of his pseudohistory Historia Regum Britanniae, the Trojan Brutus had three sons among whom (having subdued Gogmagog) he divided his lands after landing in Britain. His elder son, Locrinus, received the land between the rivers Humber and Severn, which he called Loegria (a Latinization of the Welsh name Lloegr, "England"). His second son, Albanactus, got the lands beyond the Humber, which took from him the name of Albany (Yr Alban in Welsh: Scotland). The younger son, Camber, was bequeathed everything beyond the Severn, which was called after him "Cambria".

Hiérarchie et succession

Unités hiérarchiquement subordonnées

• Furongian
• Miaolingian
• [Series 2]
• Terreneuvian

Unités sus-jacentes

• Ordovician (485.4 +/-1.9 Ma)

Âge

Âge au sommet

• Cambrien

Âge à la base

• Cambrien