Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Rappresentazione e statuto

Colore CMYK

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

Colore RGB

R: 127 G: 160 B: 86

Rango

Periodo cronostratigrafico

Uso

Unità in uso.

Status

termine formale valido

Nomenclatura

Deutsch

Kambrium

Français

Cambrien

Italiano

Cambriano

English

Cambrian (538.8 +/-0.2 Ma)

Origine del nome

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

Varianti storiche

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

Nota sul nome

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".

Gerarchia e successione

Unità di rango inferiore

• Furongian
• Miaolingian
• [Series 2]
• Terreneuvian

Unità sovrastante

• Ordovician (485.4 +/-1.9 Ma)

Età

Geomorfologia

• Cambriano

Età alla base

• Cambriano