Proterozoic

Connected Sites: 3

The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth. It extended from 2,500 Ma to 542.0-1.0 Ma (million years ago), and is the most recent part of the informally named "Precambrian" time. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Vredefort Dome
    Vredefort Dome
    South Africa
    Inscribed: 2005
    1.97
    36
    4
    The crater's age is estimated to be 2.023 billion years (~ 4 million years), which places it in the Paleoproterozoic era. (Wiki)
  • Air and Téneré
    Air and Téneré
    Niger
    Inscribed: 1991
    3.14
    2
    1
    La zone du socle précambrien de l'Aïr est composée de dépôts de roches sédimentaires plissées et métamorphisées (gneiss, schistes) et de roches volcaniques datant du Protérozoïque inférieur. (wiki fr)
  • Mistaken Point
    Mistaken Point
    Canada
    Inscribed: 2016
    3.41
    34
    7
    the middle Ediacaran, 580 to 560 million years ago