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- Title
What status for the Quaternary?
- Authors
Gibbard, Philip L.; Smith, Alan G.; Zalasiewicz, Jan A.; Barry, Tiffany L.; Cantrill, David; Coe, Angela L.; Cope, John C. W.; Gale, Andrew S.; Gregory, F. John; Powell, John H.; Rawson, Peter F.; Stone, Philip; Waters, Colin N.
- Abstract
The status of the Quaternary, long regarded as a geological period effectively coincident with the main climatic deterioration of the current Ice Age, has recently been questioned as a formal stratigraphic unit. We argue here that it should be retained as a formal period of geological time. Furthermore, we consider that its beginning should be placed at the GaussMatuyama magnetic chron boundary at about 2.6 Ma, rather than at its current position at about 1.8 Ma. The Quaternary would be formally subdivided into the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. The global chronostratigraphical correlation table proposed is enclosed at the back of this issue.
- Subjects
QUATERNARY stratigraphic geology; QUATERNARY paleoclimatology; QUATERNARY paleogeography; GEOLOGICAL time scales; CHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGY
- Publication
Boreas, 2005, Vol 34, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0300-9483
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/03009480510012854