Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Read about the Earth's Geologic History on Wikipedia here
See the Geologic Time Scale on Wikipedia here
Look at Google images of Geologic Time Scale here
Do this fantastic interactive tutorial here from Berkley Education (and more here)

How do you like to visualize the history of the earth? 

• vertically? (like this with the most recent history at the top)
• vertically with pictographs? (like this)
• vertically with images? (like this)
• horizontally? (like this or this) 
• like a spiral? (like this one with the past on the bottom)
• like a clock? (like this or this)
• like the Science Centre walk here
• like books back-to-back (like this)
• like a staircase (like this)
• like a calendar (like this)