Timeline of the Universe · event
Life Moves Onto Land
13.33 billion years — 470 million years ago · Life on Earth
- Temperature (K)
- 2.8
- When
- 13.33 billion years — 470 million years ago
- Redshift
- z ≈ 0.035
- Era
- Life on Earth
- Seconds After Big Bang
- 420559206110000000
What Happened
Plants colonise the continents, and their roots begin breaking rock into soil. Silicate weathering accelerates, drawing down carbon dioxide, and the atmosphere and the climate have been partly under biological control ever since.
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