Using geochemical analyses of marine sediments, researchers have been able to quantitatively reconstruct the Atlantic ...

For example, we currently live in the Meghalayan Age. It’s part of the Holocene Epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, when ice caps and glaciers began retreating.

An epoch in Geochronology is a period of time, typically in the order of tens of millions of years. The current epoch is the Holocene, the name given to the last 11,700 years of the Earth’s history.

Amidst a campaign to declare the end of the Holocene, scientists can’t figure out just when the proposed Anthropocene actually started. The debate—now 15 years old—will only continue to fester.

The AWG demonstrated "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the "relatively stable interglacial conditions" that existed since the start of the Holocene Epoch 11,700 years ago no longer exist because of ...

According to geologists, we humans have been living in the Holocene Epoch for about 11,700 years, since the end of the last ice age.

The central point is that more and more cross-sections of the Earth are starting to look markedly different than Holocene trends are supposed to, and in a few thousand years those layers will be a ...

The scientist Paul Crutzen grew tired of the Holocene 24 years ago. The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began ...

But it’s the Holocene that shows the greatest change in duration from other epochs: nearly three orders of magnitude (0.0117 million years versus 2.57 million years for the Pleistocene epoch ...

For example, we currently live in the Meghalayan Age. It’s part of the Holocene Epoch, which began at the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago, when ice caps and glaciers began retreating.

They determined that adding an Anthropocene Epoch – and terminating the Holocene Epoch – was not supported by the standards used to define epochs.