0.1 km/Ma followed by the
Quaternary period of a relatively rapid rate of ca.
Until recently, everybody agreed that we live in the Holocene epoch of the
Quaternary period, which in turn is part of the 65-million-year old Cenozoic era, the most recent phase of the 540-million-year Phanerozoic aeon.
The results give scientists a clearer picture of how to reconstruct glacial response to climate change from as far back as when the glaciers were first formed many hundreds of thousands of years ago in the
Quaternary Period, a geologic time period that includes the ice ages and extends to present day.
The value of Kama incision offset for the
Quaternary period is comparable to Volga offset of the Kazan area.
Tackling the ongoing debates over the megafaunal mass extinctions of the late
Quaternary period, for instance, Paul Jentz demonstrates how cross-disciplinary collaboration can contribute to ongoing paleontological, climatological, and historical debates.
It is the closest descendent of the species that lived in this region in the
Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era.
The chronological chapters begin with the Cryogenian Period, slow down for details at the Triassic and Jurassic, then continue through the
Quaternary Period before slowing again to a human time scale.
It is given generally in relative terms referring to different stages of the
Quaternary period (e.g., Holocene, Upper Pleistocene,...).
Modern humans appeared late in the
Quaternary Period.