Holocene (11.7 ka)

Darstellung und Status

Farbe CMYK

0/5/10/0

Farbe RGB

R: 254 G: 242 B: 224

Rang

chronostratigraphische Epoche / geochronologische Serie

Gebrauch

Element ist in Gebrauch

Status

gültiger formeller Begriff

SKS-Notiz

Formally adopted by the International Geological Congress (IGC 1885).

Diskussion des Status

Nomenklatur

Deutsch

Holozän

Français

Holocène

Italiano

Olocene

English

Holocene (11.7 ka)

Herkunft des Namens

holos = fully, entirely , kaïno = recent

Historische Varianten

Recent (Lyell 1839), Post-Glacial (Forbes 1846), Holocene (Gervais 1867-1869, IGC 1885, Gibbard et al. 2005 and 2010, Walker et al. 2008, 2009 and 2012), Alluvium = Gegenwart (Roesli 1948), Nacheiszeit, Holocän, Holocaen

Hierarchie und Abfolge

Untergeordnete Einheiten

• Meghalayan (4.2 ka)
• Subatlantic
• Subboreal
• Northgrippian (8.2 ka)
• Atlantic
• Greenlandian (11.7 ka)
• Boreal
• Preboreal

Untergrenze

The base of the Holocene is set at the end of the Younger Dryas, which corresponds to 10'000 a 14C (uncalibrated) and 11'500 a BP (calendar years), respectively (Walker et al. 2009).

Alter

Alter Top

• Holozän

Alter Basis

• Holozän

Referenzen

Erstdefinition

Gervais P. (1867) : Zoologie et paléontologie générales: nouvelles recherches sur les animaux vertébrés et fossiles. Paris

Neubearbeitung

Gibbard P.L., Smith A.G., Zalasiewicz J. (2005) : What status for the Quaternary? Boreas 34, 1-6

Wichtige Publikationen

Mangerud J., Birks H.J.B., Jäger K.D. (eds) (1982) : Chronostratigraphical Subdivision of the Holocene. Striae 16, 1-110

Walker M., Johnsen S., Rasmussen S.O., ... (2008) : The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) in the NGRIP ice core. Episodes 31, 264-267

Walker M., Johnsen S., Rasmussen S.O., ... (2009) : Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 3-17

Walker M.J.C., Berkelhammer M., Björck S., Cwynar L.C., Fisher D.A., Long A.J., Lowe J.J., Newnham R.M., Rasmussen S.O., Weiss H. (2012) : Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch: a Discussion Paper by a Working Group of INTIMATE (Integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) and the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (International Commission on Stratigraphy). Journal of Quaternary Science 27/7, 649-659