Northgrippian stage

geologic time

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Holocene Epoch

  • geologic time
    In Holocene Epoch: The Pleistocene–Holocene boundary

    The onset of the Northgrippian stage (8,300 to 4,200 years ago), also determined using ice cores from Greenland, coincided with a period of cooling that occurred in the North Atlantic about 8,300 years ago. In contrast, the Meghalayan stage (4,200 years ago to the present) was determined using a…

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