10,000,000 BP to 1,000,000 BP 

7,246,000 Mya, Neogene, Miocene, Messinian: Messinian Event with hypersaline lakes in empty Mediterranean Basin. Moderate icehouse(?)climate, punctuated by ice ages and reestablishment of East Antarctic Ice Sheet.                                                

 

6,400,000 BP: Heise volcanic field. Yellowstone hotspot. Walcott Tuff. Idaho, US. Ejecta volume was about 750 km3.

  

6 Mya: Giants similar to humans began to flourish on Earth about this time and were still in evidence to about 200,000 BP. They seem to have survived some cold times. I imagine that the great Ice Age got their attention.

 

2.6 Mya to 12,000 BP: This time marks the duration of the Pleistocene Epoch

~ The Pleistocene is followed by the Holocene Epoch. As I remember the Holocene is the geological Epoch in which we are living.

2.58 Mya: Phanerozoic Eon, Cenozoic Era, Quaternary Period, Pleistocene Epoch, Gelasian Age: Start of Quaternary glaciations.Rise of the Pleistocene about 2,580,000 years ago or years before the present. 

 

2.48 Mya: Geologically speaking not so astoundingly long ago, there was a colossal volcanic eruption. It occurred at Cerro Galan, in the Andes Central Volcanic Zone in the Catamarca province of Argentina.

1.8 Mya, Pleistocene, Calabrian: Further cooling of the climate. Spread of Homo erectus.

1.76 Mya: Tool making by homo erectus may be traced back to this time.

1,080,000 BP, New Zealand: There occurred a superruption in what is now called the Mangakino Caldera. One might call it the kidnappers eruption.

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 Mya to 10 Mya(?)

 15 Mya to 10 Mya

13.82 Mya: Neogene, Miocene, Serravaillan: Warmer climate during Middle Miocene.

12 Mya: About this time there was a massive, explosive volcanic eruption on the border of what is now Argentina and Bolivia. Cerro Panizos of the Altiplano Puna volcanic complex.

11.830 Mya: About this time a massive, explosive volcanic eruption occurred at what is now the Bruneau/Jarbridge, Yellowstone hotspot in Idaho, USA. It was responsible for the Ashfall Fossil Beds 1,600 km to the east.

11.63 Mya: Neogene, Miocene, Tortonian: Gradual separation of human and chimpanzee ancestors. Sahelanthropus tchadensis in Africa. 

11.7 Mya, Greenlandia Age of the Holocene Epoch: Current interglacial begins. Sea level flooding of  Doggerland and Sundaland. Sahara desert forms. Neolithic agriculture was practiced.(?)