Summary
The Earth’s rock record preserves a substantial fraction of its history, attesting to our planet’s unique and complex systems from which tectonics, minerals, climate, and life have emerged. The Geological Time Scale (GTS) is the authoritative calendar of Earth’s history that has resulted from centuries of observation and quantification of this rock record, and which serves as a foundation for research and innovation in Earth systems science. However, the process of GTS construction and revision has yet to evolve into an open science structure that can harness the full energy and potential of t
