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The Holocene is a geologic epoch that follows directly after the Pleistocene. Continental motions due to plate tectonics are less than a kilometre over a span of only 10,000 years. However, ice melt caused world sea levels to rise about 35 m (115 ft) in the early part of the Holocene and another 30 m in the later part of the Holocene.
25 paź 2024 · Holocene Epoch, younger of the two formally recognized epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period and the latest interval of geologic time, covering approximately the last 11,700 years of Earth’s history.
18 lut 2019 · The Holocene Series/Epoch is the most recent series/epoch in the geological timescale, spanning the interval from 11,700 yr to the present day. Together with the subadjacent Pleistocene, it comprises the Quaternary System/Period.
8 sty 2016 · The past 7000 years of the Holocene epoch, when ice volumes stabilized near present-day values, provide the baseline for discussion of anthropogenic contributions. Relative sea-level records indicate that from ~7000 to 3000 yr B.P., global mean sea level rose ~2 to 3 m to nearly present-day levels . Based on local sea-level records spanning the ...
On 14 June 2018, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences formally ratified a proposal to subdivide the Holocene into three stages/ages, along with their equivalent subseries/subepochs, each anchored by a Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP).
25 paź 2024 · The expansion of monsoonal rains during the early Holocene in the tropical latitudes permitted an extensive spread of moist savanna-type vegetation over the Sahara in North Africa and the Kalahari in South Africa and in broad areas of Brazil, India, and Australia. Most of these areas had been dry savanna or arid during the last glacial period.
11 mar 2015 · An Anthropocene Epoch, combined with today’s evidence that Homo sapiens is a Pleistocene species, removes key justifications for retaining the Holocene as an epoch-level designation.
