Holocene | search
Click here to view Holocene news from 60+ newspapers.
Bookmark or Share- Holocene | Perissodactyl - American Museum of Natural HistoryThe Holocene is an unfinished chapter of the Cenozoic. Observers in the future will probably identify the Holocene as the time period when human occupation was the dominant feature of the Earth’s biota.
- Holocene - WikipediaThe Holocene (/ ˈ h ɒ l. ə s iː n,-oʊ-, ˈ h oʊ. l ə-,-l oʊ-/) [2] [3] is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. [4] It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. [4] The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene [5] together form the Quaternary period.
- Holocene Epoch - Climate, Biota, Human Impact | BritannicaHolocene Epoch - Climate, Biota, Human Impact: In formerly glaciated regions, the Holocene has been a time for the reinstitution of ordinary processes of subaerial erosion and progressive reoccupation by a flora and fauna.
- Holocene - New World EncyclopediaThe Holocene is the fourth and last epoch of the Neogene period (or second epoch of the Quaternary sub-era) of the Cenozoic era. The Holocene was preceded by the Pleistocene epoch, which began about 1.8 million years ago (mya) and ended at a time corresponding with the end of the Paleolithic age used in archeology.
- Holocene epoch | Causes, Effects, & Facts | BritannicaHolocene 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.
More
