Subdivisions of the Quaternary System | |||
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System/ Period |
Series/ Epoch |
Stage/ Age |
Age (Ma) |
Quaternary | Holocene | 0.0117–0 | |
Pleistocene | Tarantian | 0.126–0.0117 | |
Ionian | 0.781–0.126 | ||
Calabrian | 1.80–0.781 | ||
Gelasian | 2.58–1.80 | ||
Neogene | Pliocene | Piacenzian | aulder |
In Europe an North Americae, the Holocene is subdividit intae Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal, an Subatlantic stages o the Blytt–Sernander time scale. Thare are mony regional subdiveesions for the Upper or Late Pleistocene; uisually these represent locally recognised cauld (glacial) an wairm (interglacial) periods. The last glacial period ends wi the cauld Younger Dryas substage. |
The Holocene, accordin tae current scienteefic consensus, is the geological epoch that began efter the Pleistocene[1] at approximately 11,700 year afore present.[2]