Quaternary (Geological periods 🌍)

The Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the Phanerozoic eon. It follows the Neogene Period and spans from 2.58 million years ago to the present. The Quaternary ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary

#Quaternary #GeologicalPeriods #PhysicalGeography #PhysicalOceanography

What did Beringia look like in the last “ice-age?” Alistair Monteath et al.¹ have just published an impressive review article!
I will need some time to read through it.
The more detailed fossil-based understanding of vegetation and soil is really important for a clearer picture of the plant–herbivore interactions. In the end, it’s so much more complex than the naïve concept of a homogenous mammoth steppe grassland…

¹ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109527
#Beringia #Mammoth #Pleistocene #Quaternary

🔦 Feldforschung in Alaska: Der #Geologe Paul Wilcox entdeckte dort in einer schwer zugänglichen Höhle rund 20.000 Jahre alte Ablagerungen. Eine Analyse dieser Proben erlaubte Rückschlüsse über das Ende der letzten #Eiszeit und darüber, wie das Abschmelzen der riesigen Gletscher damals vor sich ging.

🆕 https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2025/alaska-hohlensedimente-dokumentieren-letzteiszeitliche-klimadyna/

📖 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01694-4

#Geologie #Paläoklima #quaternary #quaternaryScience #paeloclimate

Dear #EGU25 attendees, please consider going along to our session, "CL1.2.12 Understanding carbon cycle – climate interactions during the Quaternary through the study of oceanic circulation, vegetation, and wildfire", which is taking place on Friday.

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/session/51797

@paleofire #palaeofire #Fire #carbon #Quaternary #QuaternaryScience