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The Quaternary System/Period and its major subdivisions

Published:2015-04-01 Issue:4 Volume:56 Page:686-688
ISSN:1068-7971
Container-title:Russian Geology and Geophysics
language:en
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Author:

Gibbard P.L.¹²

Affiliation:

1. President, INQUA-SACCOM, and Past-chair, ICS Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy President, INQUA-SACCOM, and Past-chair, ICS Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy

2. Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EN, England, UK Cambridge Quaternary, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EN England UK

Abstract

Abstract The Quaternary System/Period represents the past 2.58 million years and is officially subdivided into the Pleistocene and Holocene series/epochs, with the base of the Holocene assigned an age of 11,700 calendar years before AD 2000. The two lowest stages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian (base 2.58 Ma) and the Calabrian (base 1.80 Ma), have been officially defined and these effectively constitute the Lower Pleistocene Subseries/Subepoch. The Middle and Upper Pleistocene have yet to be formally defined, representing an important future challenge, along with the subdivision of the Holocene, consideration of the ‘Anthropocene’, and fine-scale subdivision elsewhere within the Quaternary.

Publisher

GeoScienceWorld

Subject

Geology,Geophysics

Link

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/rgg/article-pdf/56/4/686/5262617/v56i4_s1068797115000747.pdf

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