DIY Geological timeline
Beads to make a chain representing the geological time. Every bead represents 1 million years. The chain starts with Cambrian and ends today.
Included are:
- 541 beads with 18mm diameter - one for every one million years - dyed with foodcoloring and liquid watercolors (in 12 labeled paperbags)
- bunch of beads as reserve
Optional - if don't have some at home:
- 1 little jar of bees wax polish, to give some shine to the beads (the beads won't be inert to salvia or water, but a little more protected!)
What you need:
- paper towel to take excess polish (you can polish before you thread the beads or after threading - before is easier to me - just take up some polish with your finger and apply it to the beads)
- about 10 meter string - I love a flexible one like this
How many beads for which aera - numbers taken from Wikidepia (Summer 2018):
- Cambrian Period 56 (blueviolett)
- Ordician Period 42 (dark blue)
- SilurianP 24 (blue)
- Devonian Period 60 (middle blue)
- Carboniferous Period 60 (light blue)
- Permian Period 47 (lightest blue)
- Triassic Period 51 (dark green)
- Jurassic Period 56 (green)
- Cretaceous Period 79 (light green)
- Paleogene Period 43 (orange)
- Neogene Period 21 (red orange)
- Quaternary Period 2 (red)
