Holocene
Speech parts
1. Holocene - Noun
2. Holocene - Adjective
3. Holocene - Proper noun
Meaning
approximately the last 10,000 years
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Examples
18 O record lasting 400 years, is the most prominent climatic event occurring in the Holocene epoch, and may have marked a resurgence of ice cover.
Although, the interpretation of the data is more murky and ambiguous, it is likely that end of the Younger Dryas and start of Holocene warming was similarly delayed in time in Japan, and in other parts of East Asia.
All continents were affected, but Africa less so. citation The Holocene ranges from 12,000 years ago to present day.
An eruption in 1900 BCE was the largest known eruption from St. Helens during the Holocene epoch, judged by the volume of one of the tephra layers from that period.
Anatomically modern humans have inhabited the regions around modern Laos since the late Pleistocene to early Holocene eras.
B. latifrons was one of many species of North American megafauna that became extinct during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch (an event referred to as the Quaternary extinction event).