It’s official — you’re living in a new age.
It’s called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale.
The scale divides the history of the Earth into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, the way we divide smaller increments of time into years, months, hours, minutes and seconds.
The update to the geologic time scale adds three new ages, subdividing the current Holocene epoch for the first time, into the:
Greenlandian (Early Holocene) Age, which began when a sudden warming 11,700 years ago ended the last ice age — and the Paleocene Epoch.
Northgrippian (Middle Holocene) Age, which started 8,300 years ago.
Meghalayan (Late Holocene) Age, which runs from the start
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