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DOI | 10.1007/s12594-019-1141-9 |
Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary | |
Walker, Mike1,2; Gibbard, Phil3; Head, Martin J.4; Berkelhammer, Max5; Bjorck, Svante6; Cheng, Hai7,8; Cwynar, Les C.9; Fisher, David10; Gkinis, Vasilios11; Long, Antony12; Lowe, John13; Newnham, Rewi14; Rasmussen, Sune Olander11; Weiss, Harvey15 | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0016-7622 |
EISSN | 0974-6889 |
卷号 | 93期号:2页码:135-141 |
英文摘要 | 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, biological, 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 Strato-type Sections and Points (GSSPs in an ice core, and a third in a speleothem. These stages/ages are defined together with their equivalent subseries/subepochs. The new stages/ages are the Greenlandian with its GSSP in the Greenland NGRIP2 ice core and dated at 11,700 yr b2k (before 2000 CE); the Northgrippian with its GSSP in the Greenland NGRIP1 ice core and dated to 8236 yr b2k; and the Meghalayan, with its GSSP in a speleothem from Mawmluh Cave, northeastern India, with a date of 4250 yr b2k. This subdivision was formally ratified by the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) on 14th June 2018. |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/92317 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Wales, Sch Archaeol Hist & Anthropol, Trinity St David, Lampeter SA48 7EJ, Dyfed, Wales; 2.Aberystwyth Univ, Dept Geog & Earth Sci, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, Dyfed, Wales; 3.Univ Cambridge, Scott Polar Res Inst, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge CB1 3ER, England; 4.Brock Univ, Dept Earth Sci, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON LS2 3A1, Canada; 5.Univ Illinois, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Chicago, IL 60607 USA; 6.Lund Univ, Dept Geol, Quaternary Sci, Solveg 12, SE-22362 Lund, Sweden; 7.Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Inst Global Change, Xian 710049, Shaanxi, Peoples R China; 8.Univ Minnesota, Dept Earth Sci, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA; 9.Univ New Brunswick, Dept Biol, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada; 10.Univ Ottawa, Dept Earth Sci, Ottawa, ON K1N 615, Canada; 11.Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, Ctr Ice & Climate, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark; 12.Univ Durham, Dept Geog, Durham DH1 3LE, England; 13.Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Geog, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England; 14.Victoria Univ Wellington, Sch Geog Environm & Earth Sci, Wellington 6012, New Zealand; 15.Yale Univ, Sch Forestry & Environm Studies, New Haven, CT 06511 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Walker, Mike,Gibbard, Phil,Head, Martin J.,et al. Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary[J],2019,93(2):135-141. |
APA | Walker, Mike.,Gibbard, Phil.,Head, Martin J..,Berkelhammer, Max.,Bjorck, Svante.,...&Weiss, Harvey.(2019).Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary.JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA,93(2),135-141. |
MLA | Walker, Mike,et al."Formal Subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: A Summary".JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF INDIA 93.2(2019):135-141. |
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