The Holocene epoch, our current geological age, began approximately 11,700 years ago when the Younger Dryas cold period ended. It followed the Pleistocene epoch, which spanned from about 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago. The Pliocene preceded the Pleistocene, lasting from roughly 5.33 million to 2.58 million years ago. The Quaternary period encompasses the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs and is characterized by repeated glacial-interglacial climate cycles; the Holocene is the current interglacial.
Holocene began about 11,700 years ago at the end of the Younger Dryas
Key facts
- The Holocene began approximately 11,700 years ago at the end of the Younger Dryas and marks the beginning of the current epoch.
- The Holocene followed the Pleistocene, which spanned about 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago.
- The Pliocene preceded the Pleistocene and spanned roughly 5.33 million to 2.58 million years ago.
- The Quaternary encompasses the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs and is characterized by repeated glacial-interglacial climate cycles.
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The Holocene Epochucmp.berkeley.edu
To observe a Holocene environment, simply look around you! The Holocene is the name given to the last 11,700 years* of the Earth's history — the time since the ...
Officially we're in the “Holocene” epoch-a time span that ...sciencesprings.wordpress.com
Officially we're in the “Holocene” epoch-a time span that began some 11700 years ago and characterized by relatively predictable seasonality and ...
Holoceneen.wikipedia.org
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the ...
(PDF) 2 Climate Change During the Holocene (Past ...researchgate.net
This chapter summarises the climatic and environmental information that can be inferred from proxy archives over the past 12,000 years.
Younger Dryasen.wikipedia.org
The Younger Dryas (YD, Greenland Stadial GS-1) was a period in Earth's geologic history that occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years Before Present (BP).
Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epochrepository.cam.ac.uk
by M Walker · 2019 · Cited by 187 — The new stages/ages are the Greenlandian with its. GSSP in the Greenland NGRIP2 ice core and dated at 11,700 yr b2k (before 2000 CE); the. NortgGrippian with ...
two new Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points ...episodes.org
by M Walker · 2018 · Cited by 578 — Here we report a tripartite division of the Holocene into the Greenlandian, Northgrippian and Meghalayan stages/ages and their corresponding ...
Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Seriesleilan.yale.edu
by M Walker · Cited by 578 — The location of the Early–Middle Holocene boundary inside the 8.2 ka event is shown by the dashed black line. Note that the δ18. O records are aligned using ...
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