https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/078b8751-408f-4410-9925-0840a52e0b5c
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| definition | The Meghalayan is the latest age or uppermost stage of the Quaternary. It is also
the upper, or latest, of three subdivisions of the Holocene epoch or series. Its Global
Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) is a Krem Mawmluh Cave formation in Meghalaya,
northeast India. Mawmluh cave is one of the longest and deepest caves in India, and
conditions here were suitable for preserving chemical signs of the transition in ages.
The global auxiliary stratotype is an ice core from Mount Logan in Canada. The Meghalayan begins 4,200 years BP, i.e., before 1950 (c. 2250 BCE or 7750 HE), leaving open room for the possible creation of the Anthropocene from 1950 forward. The age began with a 200-year drought that impacted human civilizations in Egypt, Greece, Syria, Canaan, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Yangtze River Valley. "The fact that the beginning of this age coincides with a cultural shift caused by a global climate event makes it unique," according to Stanley Finney, Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences. |
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