Greenlandian

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The Greenlandian is the earliest age of the Holocene epoch, marking the beginning of the current geological period following the last major ice age.

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Greenlandian canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf chronostratigraphic stage
geochronologic age
boundaryType climatic event boundary
BPScale years before 1950 CE
chronologicalPosition earliest age of the Holocene
climateContext postglacial warming after last major ice age
correlatesWith early Holocene
definedBy International Commission on Stratigraphy
epoch Holocene
era Cenozoic
follows Late Pleistocene
linked to: Pleistocene epoch

Younger Dryas
GSSPLocation North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP) ice core
GSSPMarker abrupt warming at end of Younger Dryas
shift in deuterium excess values in NGRIP ice core
GSSPRegion central Greenland
linked to: Greenland
GSSPStatus ratified
lowerBoundaryDefinition onset of Holocene warming recorded in Greenland ice cores
namedAfter Greenland
partOf Cenozoic
Holocene
Quaternary
period Quaternary
linked to: Quaternary period
precedes Northgrippian
rank age
stage
ratificationYear 2018
ratifiedBy International Union of Geological Sciences
stratotypeMedium ice core
subdivides Holocene into three ages
linked to: Holocene
temporalScope early Holocene climate stabilization
timeEnd 6376 BCE (approximately)
8326 years before present (approximately)
timeStart 11700 years before present
9701 BCE (approximately)
togetherWith Meghalayan
Northgrippian
upperBoundaryDefinition climatic event around 8.2 ka BP
usedIn Quaternary stratigraphy
linked to: Quaternary period

paleoclimate studies

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Holocene hasStage Greenlandian