Scientists have created a global framework to help everyone understand Earth better. They want to link information about Earth's history, including its rocks, life, and air in a way that makes sense. This framework organizes Earth's many features using a system that ranges from tiny details to huge distances and from short timeframes to millions of years. By having this plan in place, scientists can better show how individual studies fit into the bigger picture of Earth's overall system. This framework also helps communicate geological facts to people outside the field and is helpful in protecting important geological sites worldwide as a tool called geoheritage.