geo_age: Geological Age

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geo_ageR Documentation

Geological Age

Description

Get early and late age for geological time span

Usage

geo_age(geo_time)

Arguments

geo_time

character giving a Geological timespan

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.

Value

list

See Also

Other utils: chronos_calib

Examples

geo_age('lower miocene')
# vectorised
geo_age(c("Miocene", "Pliocene"))

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