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The Holocene is the current geological epoch that began roughly 11,700 years ago after the last ice age ended. It matters because it represents the relatively warm and stable climate period in which all of human civilization has developed, and it continues to shape Earth's environment today.
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Key facts
- Geologic timespan.name
- Holocene
- Geologic timespan.color
- Holocene
- Geologic timespan.time_start
- 0.0117
- Geologic timespan.time_end
- 0
- Geologic timespan.image_map
- File:Mollweide.jpg
- Geologic timespan.caption_map
- Map of Earth as it appears during the current Holocene Epoch, Meghalayan Age
- Geologic timespan.timeline
- Holocene
- Geologic timespan.name_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.celestial_body
- earth
- Geologic timespan.usage
- Global (ICS)
- Geologic timespan.timescales_used
- ICS Time Scale
- Geologic timespan.chrono_unit
- Epoch
- Geologic timespan.strat_unit
- Series
- Geologic timespan.timespan_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def
- End of the Younger Dryas stadial.
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_location
- NGRIP2 ice core, Greenland
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_accept_date
- 2008
- Geologic timespan.upper_boundary_def
- Present day
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- series
- Has part
- Meghalayan
- Follows
- Pleistocene
- Image
- VeyoVolcano.jpg
- Significant event
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
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- Commons category
- Holocene
- topic's main category
- Category:Holocene
- start time
- 9701-00-00
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FEEBD2
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- named by
- Paul Gervais
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- IPA transcription
- /ˈhɒl.əsiːn/
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