Elsterian
Back to Time ScaleRepresentation and status
- Color CMYK
- (0%,0%,0%,100%)
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- informal term
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Elsterien
- Français
- Elsterien
- Italiano
- Elsteriano
- English
- Elsterian
- Origin of the Name
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Named after the river Weisse Elster (E Germany), a tributary of the river Saale.
- Historical Variants
- Elsterian
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- Anglian (United Kingdom), Okian (Russia)
Hierarchy and sequence
- Units at roof
Age
- Age at top
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- Middle Pleistocene
- Age at base
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- Middle Pleistocene
- Dating Method
- approx. 400'000-320'000 a