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The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 Mya to about 12 kya.
The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch. Prior to the 2009 revision of the geologic time scale, which placed the four most recent major glaciations entirely within the Pleistocene, the Pliocene also included the Gelasian Stage, which lasted from 2.59 to 1.81 Ma, and is now included in the Pleistocene. [10]
The name Plio-Pleistocene has, in the past, been used to mean the last ice age. Formerly, the boundary between the two epochs was drawn at the time when the foraminiferal species Hyalinea baltica first appeared in the marine section at La Castella, Calabria, Italy. [ 20 ]
The Norwich Crag Formation is a stratigraphic unit of the British Pleistocene Epoch. It is the second youngest unit of the Crag Group, a sequence of four geological formations spanning the Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene transition in East Anglia.
Early Pliocene, Plio-Pleistocene, Late Pleistocene, Holocene Bolt's Farm is a palaeontological site in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, Gauteng province, South Africa. With more than 30 fossil deposits dating back 4.5 Ma, it is one of the oldest sites currently discovered in the Cradle of Humankind.
Villafranchian age (/ ˌ v ɪ l ə ˈ f r æ ŋ k i ə n / VIL-ə-FRANK-ee-ən) is a period of geologic time (3.5–1.0 Ma) [1] [2]: 7 spanning the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene used more specifically with European Land Mammal Ages.
The Boring Lava Field (also known as the Boring Volcanic Field) [3] is a Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field of cinder cones, small shield volcanoes, and lava flows in the northern Willamette Valley of the U.S. state of Oregon and adjacent southwest Washington.
Pleistocene Alps river Biber (Germany) Schaefer, 1953 Biber-Donau: age Pleistocene Alps Blancan: 4.9 1.8 age Plio-Pleistocene North America Wood "et al", 1941 Black River(-an) age Ordovician) North America Vanuxem, 1842 Bolderian <21 >16 age Miocene Belgium (obsolete) Bolderberg: Dumont, 1850 Bolindian: 450 443.7 age Ordovician Australia Webby ...