Myr\text{Myr}

megayear

Timeexact by definition

The megayear is one million years, written Myr. It is the everyday unit of geology and evolutionary biology: a species persists for a few Myr, an ocean basin opens over tens of Myr, and a mountain range rises over roughly a hundred.

Watch out: Geologists distinguish Myr, a duration, from Ma, an age before present. Sixty-six Ma is when the Cretaceous ended; sixty-six Myr is how long something lasted. The distinction is enforced in the literature and worth respecting.

1 Myr\text{Myr} 31,557,600,000,000 s\text{s}

One megayear in every time unit

5.85349e+56Planck time (tP)
3.15576e+31attosecond (as)
3.15576e+28femtosecond (fs)
3.15576e+25picosecond (ps)
3.15576e+22nanosecond (ns)
3.15576e+21shake (shake)
3.15576e+19microsecond (µs)
3.15576e+16millisecond (ms)
31,557,600,000,000second (s)
525,960,000,000minute (min)
8,766,000,000hour (h)
366,250,000sidereal day (sd)
365,250,000day (d)
52,178,600week (wk)
26,089,300fortnight (fn)
12,000,200month (mo)
1,000,000year (yr)
100,000decade (dec)
10,000century (cent)
1,000millennium (mil)
1megayear (Myr)this unit
0.001eon (eon)