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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the epoch of geologic time from about 10,000 years ago to the present, the more recent of the two epochs of the Quaternary Period. It began at the end of the last Ice Age and is characterized by the development of human civilizations.
- noun The Holocene Epoch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The geological period comprising approximately the last 10,000 years.
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- adjective geology Of a
geologic epoch within theNeogene period from about 11,000 years ago to the present; the age ofman . - noun geology The Holocene epoch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun approximately the last 10,000 years
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Holocene is the name of a venue and new record label in the Portland area.
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Holocene is the name of a venue and new record label in the Portland area.
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The long-term Holocene vegetation development in the central part of the Scandes is known through radiocarbon dating of subfossil wood remains (megafossils) found above the present-day tree-limit (Lundqvist, 1959; Kullman, 1995, 1998b; Kullman and Kjallgren, 2000).
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Many long-term Holocene last ~10000yrs tropical proxies show the LIA as the coldest in the entire period.
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Notes From the Holocene is a book that may not have your answer to life’s questions, but it may get you thinking more about these questions, and start you on a journey with a destination where you will have your own satisfactory answers to these great questions.
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Notes From the Holocene is a book that may not have your answer to life’s questions, but it may get you thinking more about these questions, and start you on a journey with a destination where you will have your own satisfactory answers to these great questions.
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Notes From the Holocene is Dorion Sagan’s answer to this question and many more.
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Notes From the Holocene is Dorion Sagan’s answer to this question and many more.
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So Steve you’ve given me/Dano that the long term Holocene trend has been one of generalized cooling.
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For the last 10,000 years we've been living in a geological era called the Holocene.
Rebecca Novick: Global Warming: The Un-tellable Story Rebecca Novick 2012
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