Geological Age

Source: R/Utils.r

Get early and late age for geological time span

geo_age(geo_time)

Arguments

geo_time

character giving a Geological timespan

Value

list

Details

Uses the API from earthlifeconsortium.org to retrieve upper and lower bound for a geological age range (e.g. 'miocene'). Unit can be can be Eon, Era, System/Period, Series/Epoch. Returns a list with items early_age and late_age. Gives a warning if age range no found or if the API call times out.

See also

Other utils: chronos_calib

Examples

geo_age('lower miocene')

#>           lower miocene
#> early_age         23.03
#> late_age          15.97
# vectorised
geo_age(c("Miocene", "Pliocene"))

#>           Miocene Pliocene
#> early_age   23.03     5.33
#> late_age     5.33     2.59