EES Module 5, significant dates & time periods

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These dates are only relevant to module 5 of Earth and Environmental Science (HSC), which is the module of Earth's processes.

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Urey & Miller’s experiment

1953

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First life present before photosynthesis

3.8 Ga BP

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Archaea

3.5 Ga BP

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Cyanobacteria

3.5 Ga BP to 2.6 Ga BP

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Organisms transitioning to terrestrial land

Ordovician period

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First animals to colonise land

Tetrapods

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Marine life

lived in the ocean for approx. 600 Ma BP, or up to the Cambrian period

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Arthropods and tetrapods

Devonian period

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Tiktaalik

375 Ma BP

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BIFs

3.5 Ga BP to 2.1 Ga BP

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Great Oxygenation Event (GOE)

late Archean eon to early Proterozoic eon OR 2.5 to 1.9 Ga BP

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Anoxic atmosphere

3.9 to 2.5 Ga BP

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Process of PTS cycle

400 to 600 million years