Collapse of civilizations worldwide defines youngest unit of the Geologic Time Scale 17JUL2018

 Collapse of civilizations worldwide defines youngest unit of the Geologic Time Scale

Collapse of civilizations worldwide defines youngest unit
of the Geologic Time Scale, Late Holocene Meghalayan Age
http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-news-and-meetings/119-collapse-of-civilizations-worldwide-defines-youngest-unit-of-the-geologic-time-scale
http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2018-07.pdf

CS chart containing the Quaternary and Cambrian
GSSPs and new stages (v 2018/07) is now released!
http://www.stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-news-and-meetings/120-ics-chart-containing-the-quaternary-gssps-and-new-stages-v-2018-07-is-now-released
http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2018-07.pdf

"proposal submitted by ICS that subdivides the Holocene Series
into the Greenlandian (11,700 yr b2k), Northgrippian (8326 yr b2k),
and Meghalayan (4200 yr before 1950) stages, and that these
stages correspond to the Lower, Middle and Upper Holocene
subseries. A speleothem collected from the Mawmluh Cave,
northern India, serves as the GSSP for the Meghalayan Stage
and will be curated in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC."

Yours,

Paul H.