KAINOZOIC OR TERTIARY: Pleistocene and Recent. Pliocene.
Miocene.
Oligocene.
Eocene.
MESOZOIC OR SECONDARY: Cretaceous. Jurassic.
Triassic.
PALAEOZOIC OR PRIMARY: Permian. Carboniferous.
Devonian or old Red Sandstone.
Silurian.
Ordovician.
Cambrian.
PRECAMBRIAN OR ARCHAEAN.