Zanclean
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The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma. It is preceded by the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch, and followed by the Piacenzian Age.
Key facts
- Geologic timespan.name
- Zanclean
- Geologic timespan.color
- Zanclean
- Geologic timespan.time_start
- 5.333
- Geologic timespan.time_end
- 3.600
- Geologic timespan.image_map
- File:005_mya.png
- Geologic timespan.caption_map
- A map of the world 5 million years ago during the Zanclean Age.
- Geologic timespan.image_art
- File:Etapa4muda.jpg
- Geologic timespan.caption_art
- Artistic interpretation of the Mediterranean's Zanclean flood 5.3 million years ago
- Geologic timespan.timeline
- Neogene
- Geologic timespan.formerly_part_of
- Tertiary Period/System
- 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
- Base of the Thvera magnetic event (C3n.4n), which is only 96 ka (5 precession cycles) younger than the GSSP
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- Image
- Etapa4muda.jpg
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- Zanclean
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FFFFB3
- start time
- 5333000-00
- end time
- 3600000-00
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- Definition
- Events of the Zanclean
- References
- Notes
- Literature
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The Zanclean is the lowest stage or earliest age on the geologic time scale of the Pliocene. It spans the time between 5.332 ± 0.005 Ma (million years ago) and 3.6 ± 0.005 Ma. It is preceded by the Messinian Age of the Miocene Epoch, and followed by the Piacenzian Age.
The Zanclean can be correlated with regionally used stages, such as the Opoitian of New Zealand, and the Tabianian or Dacian of Central Europe. It also corresponds to the late Hemphillian to mid-Blancan North American Land Mammal Ages. In California, the Zanclean roughly corresponds to the middle part of the Delmontian stage.
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