That seemingly simple question has sparked a new battle between geologists and environmental advocates over what to call the time ... in the Holocene (“entirely recent”) epoch, which began ...

Main St. in Rockford. The event features activities to teach about the Holocene epoch, meaning the period of time from the ice age to today, glaciers, mammoths and more. “We have really amazing ...

That's how Holocene got its name − from the Holocene Epoch, an ongoing geological time period marked by the impact of humans on Earth. The idea for Holocene began in Timofte's dorm room while ...

While some have argued it should be an epoch akin to the Holocene, others have classified ... That comparatively short time frame does not "fit comfortably into the geological time scale, where ...

Geologists have assigned the present time to the Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period, part of the Cenozoic Era, on the time scale of the 4.6-billion-year history of the Earth. However ...