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The Quaternary Period, the Cenozoic Era geologic time unit from the end of the Pliocene Epoch, roughly 1.8−1.6 million years ago, to the present day. The Quaternary has 2 geologic/geochronologic subdivisions, the Pleistocene and the Holocene Epochs.
This category contains events which happened in the Quaternary, a division of the geologic time scale. See geologic time scale for information about its divisions and how they relate to each other.
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