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Meghalayan Stage

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    In Holocene Epoch: The Pleistocene–Holocene boundary

    In contrast, the Meghalayan stage (4,200 years ago to the present) was determined using a speleothem, or cave deposit (in this case, a stalagmite from Mawmluh Cave in Meghalaya, India). The stalagmite captured a 200-year period of worldwide drought and cooling dating to about 4,200 years ago. The…

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