Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary ...
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. The Holocene record contains diverse geomorphological, biotic, climato...
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ftdatacite:10.17863/cam.35775 2024-02-04T10:01:12+01:00 Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary ... Walker, M Gibbard, P Head, MJ Berkelhammer, M Björck, S Cheng, H Cwynar, LC Fisher, D Gkinis, V Long, A Lowe, J Newnham, R Rasmussen, SO Weiss, H 2019 https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.35775 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288488 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC 37 Earth Sciences 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience 3705 Geology Article ScholarlyArticle JournalArticle article-journal 2019 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.35775 2024-01-05T09:28:50Z 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. The Holocene record contains diverse geomorphological, biotic, climatological and archaeological evidence, within sequences that are often continuous and extremely well-preserved at decadal, annual and even seasonal resolution. As a consequence, the Holocene is perhaps the most intensively-studied series/epoch within the entire Geological Time Scale. Yet until recently little attention had been paid to a formal subdivision of the Holocene. Here we describe an initiative by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to develop a formal stratigraphical subdivision of the Holocene, with three new stages/ages, two underpinned by Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) in an ice core, and a third in a ... Article in Journal/Newspaper ice core DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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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. The Holocene record contains diverse geomorphological, biotic, climatological and archaeological evidence, within sequences that are often continuous and extremely well-preserved at decadal, annual and even seasonal resolution. As a consequence, the Holocene is perhaps the most intensively-studied series/epoch within the entire Geological Time Scale. Yet until recently little attention had been paid to a formal subdivision of the Holocene. Here we describe an initiative by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (SQS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) to develop a formal stratigraphical subdivision of the Holocene, with three new stages/ages, two underpinned by Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) in an ice core, and a third in a ... |
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Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary ... |
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