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Myr

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"Million years ago" redirects here. For the Adele song, see Million Years Ago (song). For 1,000,000 BC, see one million (disambiguation).
This article is about "million years ago" (Mya). For other uses, see Myr (disambiguation).

Mya is an abbreviation for million years ago, a unit of time equal to 1,000,000 years (i.e. 1×106 years), or 31.556926 teraseconds. It is equivalent to one megaannum (symbol Ma), based on the metric prefix mega-.

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Usage

Myr (million years) is in common use in fields such as Earth science and cosmology. Myr is also used with Mya or Ma (million years ago). Together they make a reference system, one to a quantity, the other to a particular place in a year numbering system that is time before the present.

Myr is deprecated in geology, but in astronomy Myr is standard. Where "myr" is seen in geology it is usually "Myr" (a unit of mega-years). In astronomy it is usually "Myr" (Million years).

Debate

In geology a debate remains open concerning the use of Myr (duration) plus Ma (million years ago) versus using only the term Ma.[1][2] In either case the term Ma is used in geology literature conforming to ISO 31-1 (now ISO 80000-3) and NIST 811 recommended practices. Traditional style geology literature is written

The Cretaceous started 145 Ma and ended 66 Ma, lasting for 79 Myr.

The "ago" is implied, so that any such year number "X Ma" between 66 and 145 is "Cretaceous", for good reason. But the counter argument is that having myr for a duration and Mya for an age mixes unit systems, and tempts capitalization errors: "million" need not be capitalized, but "mega" must be; "ma" would technically imply a milliyear (a thousandth of a year, or 8 hours). On this side of the debate, one avoids myr and simply adds ago explicitly (or adds BP), as in

The Cretaceous started 145 Ma ago and ended 66 Ma ago, lasting for 79 Ma.

In this case, "79 Ma" means only a quantity of 79 million years, without the meaning of "79 million years ago".

See also

References

  1. ^ Mozley, Peter. "Discussion of GSA Time Unit Conventions". web page. Geological Society of America. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03.
  2. ^ Biever, Celeste (April 27, 2011). "Push to define year sparks time war". New Scientist. 210 (2810): 10. Bibcode:2011NewSc.210R..10B. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(11)60955-X. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
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