Jahreszahlen der Erdgeschichte

This volume invites listeners on a concise tour through the deep past of our planet, beginning with the ways historians and geologists count time. It explains how layers of rock, fossilized soil, and ancient rivers serve as natural clocks, and shows how scholars move from written records of early civilizations to the silent clues left by glaciers, caves and buried seas. The first part sets the stage by contrasting human chronologies with the immense stretches uncovered in the earth’s strata.

The second half turns to the tools that let scientists put numbers on those ages: the buildup of coal and oil, the retreat of ice sheets, and the breakthrough of radioactive decay. With clear illustrations of radium’s discovery, uranium’s decay chains, and practical radio‑isotope methods, the book lays out a reliable framework for measuring eons. Listeners come away with a grounded appreciation of how the planet’s timeline is built, and why those ancient numbers matter for understanding humanity’s place in Earth’s story.