Meghalayan
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The Meghalayan age is the name given in 2018, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, to the current age or latest geologic age – or uppermost stage of the Quaternary. It is also the upper, or latest, of three subdivisions of the Holocene epoch or series. This way of breaking down time is based only on geology; for example, it is unrelated to the three-age system of historical periods into which human development is sometimes divided.
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- Geologic timespan.name
- Meghalayan
- Geologic timespan.color
- Meghalayan
- 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
- Age
- Geologic timespan.strat_unit
- Stage
- Geologic timespan.timespan_formality
- Formal
- Geologic timespan.lower_boundary_def
- 4.2-kiloyear event
- Geologic timespan.lower_gssp_location
- Mawmluh Cave, Meghalaya, India
- Geologic timespan.upper_boundary_def
- Ongoing
- Geologic timespan.upper_gssp_location
- N/A
- Geologic timespan.upper_gssp_accept_date
- N/A
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- sRGB color hex triplet
- FDEDEC
- start time
- 2251-00-00
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- Meghalayan
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The Meghalayan age is the name given in 2018, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, to the current age or latest geologic age – or uppermost stage of the Quaternary. It is also the upper, or latest, of three subdivisions of the Holocene epoch or series. This way of breaking down time is based only on geology; for example, it is unrelated to the three-age system of historical periods into which human development is sometimes divided.
== Timeline == The Meghalayan begins 4,200 years BP ( 2251 BCE or 7750 HE). Helama & Oinonen (2019) dated the start of the Meghalayan to 2190–1990 BCE. The age began with a 200-year drought that impacted human civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and the Yangtze River Valley.
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