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Holocene, a. Geol.|ˈhɒləʊsiːn|
Also holo-.
[ad. F. holocène, f. holo- + Gr. καιν-ός new, recent, after Eocene, etc.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating the most recent geological epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago and still continues and which together with the Pleistocene epoch makes up the Quaternary period; also absol.
[1867P. Gervais Recherches sur l'Ancienneté de l'Homme et la Période quaternaire ii. 32 Les dépôts récents que j'avais proposé, il y a plusieurs années, de nommer holocènes.] 1897Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LIII. 434 Mollusca from the Holocene deposits of the Kennet Valley at Newbury. 1927Peake & Fleure Apes & Men 14 The Holocene is more often called the Recent Period. 1935Nature 7 Sept. 353/1 The pauses in the contraction of the lake must be due to increased rainfall, but nothing like a ‘pluvial period’ is admitted in holocene times. 1963R. Carrington Million Years of Man xiii. 164 In this Holocene epoch..the hunters and food-gatherers of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic times adopted an entirely new mode of existence. 1971Nature 24 Sept. 281/1 A considerable isostatic rise in the land must have occurred in the late Pleistocene with continuation in the Holocene. |