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Subject: Geologic Time
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: babygirl310-ga
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Posted: 07 Oct 2005 11:23 PDT
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Question ID: 577619
What geologic Era, Period and Epoch are we in now?
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Subject: Re: Geologic Time
Answered By: answerfinder-ga on 07 Oct 2005 11:41 PDT
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Dear babygirl310-ga 

The University of California?s Berkeley web geological time machine
tells us that we are in the Phanerozoic Eon (543 million years to
present), the Cenozoic Era (65 million years to today), the Quaternary
Period (1.8 million years to today), and finally the Holocene Epoch
(10,000 years to today).
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/help/timeform.html

?The Holocene is the name given to the last ~10,000 years of the
Earth's history -- the time since the end of the last major glacial
epoch, or "ice age." Since then, there have been small-scale climate
shifts -- notably the "Little Ice Age" between about 1200 and 1700
A.D. -- but in general, the Holocene has been a relatively warm period
in between ice ages.?
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/quaternary/hol.html

See also the U.S. Geological Survey web site.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/geo_time_scale.html

And more on Wikipedia -
?The Holocene Epoch is a geologic period that extends from the present
back about 10,000 radiocarbon years.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene

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