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    "JUL 20, 2018 ... So Mike Walker, a professor at the University of Wales, led a team to make the three new cuts in the rock record.

    The Early Holocene starts 11,700 years ago, as the last Ice Age ended. Stratigraphers will call it the Greenlandian Age, because its “golden spike” is taken from an ice core drilled from Greenland’s ice sheet.

    The Middle Holocene begins roughly 8,330 years ago, during a sudden and unexplained outbreak of cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s named the Northgrippian Age, after the scientific expedition that found its golden spike: the Northern Greenland Ice Core Project, or ngrip.

    The Late Holocene starts about 4,250 years ago, during a massive drought that struck Eurasia and destroyed several ancient societies. The team found clear evidence of that event in a cave in Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India, so the age is termed the Meghalayan. ... "

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    "4,200 years ago, a sweeping mega-drought devastated agricultural societies across the globe, wiping out civilizations from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, Palestine and the Yangtze River Valley. Now, scientists say the cataclysmic event marks the beginning of a new geologic age: the Late Holocene Meghalayan, which encompasses everything from the start of the drought to the present.

    Geologists divide the planet’s 4.54-billion-year history into a series of smaller subdivisions, Laura Geggel writes for Live Science. Earth is currently situated in the Phanerozoic Eon, Cenozoic Era, Quaternary Period, Holocene Epoch and Meghalayan Age.

    According to a press release from the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the governing body responsible for delineating these segments of time, the Meghalayan Age is unique amongst intervals in the Geologic Time Scale because its start represents a global cultural event—the rebuilding of decimated agricultural societies—sparked by a global climatic event—the mega-drought, which wreaked havoc over the first 200 years of the stage."


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