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The geologic time scale that represents the longest time span is  the eon. It is a unit of time that is equal to a billion years.
The history of the earth is broken up into a hierarchical set of divisions for describing geologic time. As increasingly smaller units of time, the generally accepted divisions are eon, era, period, epoch, age. In the time scale shown at left, only the two highest levels of this hierarchy are represented.