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L.S., Wanted to raise some awareness on TFF because I expect many here will simply love this: A good friend of mine, Iris van Zelst (geophysicist at the German Aerospace Center in Berlin) has developed this really nice card game centred around the geological time scale: QUARTETnary The gameplay is based on the classic game Quartets (similar to Go Fish and Happy Families), where players try to collect as many sets of four cards as they can. In QUARTETnary, each of the sets represents four major events that took place during a specific geological time period. To win the game, you need to create the most complete timeline of Earth history, all the way from its formation 4.567 billion years ago to the appearance of us humans. The cards have been designed by Lucia Perez-Diaz (Earth scientist and freelance illustrator from the UK). The illustrations look amazing and I really like that they adhered to the official colour scheme of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Iris sent me this nice set of cards for the Proterozoic: The game includes 15 sets of four cards in total (many featuring fossils): one each for the Hadean, Archean and Proterozoic eons, and one each for the 12 periods of the Phanerozoic. I expect QUARTETnary will become a really fun way to learn about and memorize the different geological units and major events in Earth history. Kind regards, Tim

3D documentary I have been working on for the last 3 years is finally released! It is called Ancient Planet and tells the the story of Earth from the its formation in the Hadean Eon, until the end of the Proterozoic with its mysterious Ediacaran organisms. All 3 episodes are available for watching on Tubi service, which is completely free, just requires registration: https://tubitv.com/series/300007201/ancient-planet-trilogy?start=true

For the last year I have been working on the first part of my 3D animated documentary series about prehistoric Earth. The first episode will take you to Hadean eon 4.6 - 4 billion years ago and tell about the formation of our planet, moon, emergence of water and, finally the first life. The full documentary is pretty much done and is being edited at the moment (voice over, sound effects, etc.). Finally, here is the trailer for Part 1 (everything is CGI and done by me). Not sure yet about distribution methods. Anyways, here is the teaser:

Meteorite Bombardment Likely Created the Oldest Rocks on Earth By Meghan Bartels, Space.com Senior Writer | August 13, 2018 04:54pm ET https://www.space.com/41468-meteorite-bombardment-created-oldest-earth-rocks.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/gc-mbl081018.php Johnson, T.E., Gardiner, N.J., Miljković, K., Spencer, C.J., Kirkland, C.L., Bland, P.A. and Smithies, H., 2018. An impact melt origin for Earth’s oldest known evolved rocks. Nature Geoscience. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0206-5 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0206-5 Yours, Paul H.