Zanclean Stage — ▪ paleontology the lowermost division of Pliocene (Pliocene Epoch) rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Zanclian Age (5.3 million to 3.6 million years ago) of the Neogene Period (the past 23 million years). The… … Universalium
Messinian salinity crisis — Events of the Cenozoic view • discuss • … Wikipedia
Piacenzian — System Series Stage Age (Ma) Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene … Wikipedia
Messinian — System Series Stage Age (Ma) Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene … Wikipedia
Okeechobean Sea — Table displaying the Okeechobean Sea and its relation to geologic time and North American Land Mammal Ages. Dry periods or marine regressive periods are tan in color. The Okeechobean Sea was a Cenozoic eutropical subsea, which along with the… … Wikipedia
Outburst flood — In geomorphology, an outburst flood, which is a type of megaflood, is a high magnitude, low frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of water.[1][2] During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) were… … Wikipedia
Miocene — System Series Stage Age (Ma) Quaternary Pleistocene Gelasian younger Neogene Pliocene … Wikipedia
Neogene — Period 23.03–2.588 million years ago … Wikipedia
Geologic time scale — This clock representation shows some of the major units of geological time and definitive events of Earth history. The Hadean eon represents the time before fossil record of life on Earth; its upper boundary is now regarded as 4.0 Ga.[1] Other… … Wikipedia
Point Stratotypique Mondial — Le Point Stratotypique Mondial (PSM) (Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point, GSSP), définit les limites existantes entre deux étages géologiques, ne laissant pas la posssibilité de vide ou de chevauchement entre eux. Les PSM sont établie… … Wikipédia en Français
