The three perioods of the newly defined Martian Geological history are: The Phyllocian Era, The Theikian Era and the Siderikan Era ( see: 'Mars Mission', sections 9, 10, 11, respectively )

In terms of global warming, the transition from the Phyllocian to the Theikian, which consisted of volcanic activity releasing gases into the atmosphere, creating an acidic environment and eventually resulting in the absence of water at the end of volcanism in the Siderikan Era, bears the same basic hallmarks as the changes it is believed that this Earth will see over the coming centuries with runaway Global Warming.