| − | '''Consistentior status''' is the initial date of all [[geological]] history. According to [[Lord Kelvin]] the term was coined by [[Leibniz]] in his [[Leibniz’s theory of earth|theory of earth]].<ref name="OnSecularCooling">{{cite web |title= On the Secular Cooling of the Earth |author=W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |publisher=Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |year=1864 (Read 1862) |volume= XXIII |pages= 167-169 |url=http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_secular_cooling_of_the_earth.html |quote=The chief object of the present communication is to estimate from the known general increase of temperature in the earth downwards, the date of the first establishment of that consistentior status, which, according to Leibnitz’s theory, is the initial date of all geological history. ...11. ...That is to say, I conclude that Leibnitz’s epoch of emergence of the consistentior status was probably between those dates.|accessdate=June 14, 2015}}</ref> | + | '''Consistentior status''' is the initial date of all [[geological]] history. According to [[Lord Kelvin]] the term was coined by [[Leibniz]] in his [[Leibniz’s theory of earth|theory of earth]].<ref name="OnSecularCooling">{{cite web |title= On the Secular Cooling of the Earth |author=W. Thomson (Lord Kelvin) |publisher=Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |year=1864 (Read 1862) |volume= XXIII |pages= 167–169 |url=http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_secular_cooling_of_the_earth.html |quote=The chief object of the present communication is to estimate from the known general increase of temperature in the earth downwards, the date of the first establishment of that consistentior status, which, according to Leibnitz’s theory, is the initial date of all geological history. ...11. ...That is to say, I conclude that Leibnitz’s epoch of emergence of the consistentior status was probably between those dates.|accessdate=June 14, 2015}}</ref> |