Eemian

Back to Time Scale

Representation and status

Color CMYK
(0%,0%,0%,100%)
Rank
chronostratigraphy
Validity
Unit is in Use
Status
informal term

Nomenclature

Deutsch
Eémien
Français
Eémien
Italiano
Eemiano
English
Eemian
Origin of the Name

Named after the river Eem in the area of the city of Amersfoort (Netherlands).

Historical Variants
Système Eémien (Harting 1875), last interglacial = Eemian
Nomenclatorial Remarks
Riss-Würm interglacial (Alps), Ipswichian (United Kingdom), Mikulin interglacial (Russia), Valdivia interglacial (Chile), Sangamonian (North America)

Hierarchy and sequence

Units at roof

Age

Age at top
  • Late Pleistocene
Age at base
  • Late Pleistocene
Note about base
Base near the Blake reversed palaeomagnetic subchron.
Dating Method
MIS-5e, approx. 130'000 to 115'000 a

References

Definition
Harting P. (1875) : Le système Éemien. Archives Néerlandaises Sciences Exactes et Naturelles de la Societé Hollandaise des Sciences (Harlem) 10, 443–454
Definition
Bosch J. H. A., Cleveringa P., Meijer T. (2000) : The Eemian stage in the Netherlands: history, character and new research. Geologie en Mijnbouw / Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 79 (2/3), 135–145
Back to top