Holocene definition

Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, at 11,700 years before present, to present.
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, ex- tending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present.§ 258.14 Seismic impact zones.

Examples of Holocene in a sentence

  • An active fault is defined by the State as one that has “had surface displacement within Holocene time (about the last 11,000 years).” This definition does not, of course, mean that faults lacking evidence for surface displacement within Holocene time are necessarily inactive.

  • Holocene stratigraphy and environmental history of a shallow water embayment in Narragansett Bay, RI.

  • No habitable structures shall be located on a fault that has been active during the Holocene epoch of geological time.

  • This course surveys major topics in Old World archaeology beginning with the evolution of the first hominins six million years ago, continuing through to the complex societies of the later Holocene.

  • Forty extinct species of Holocene fossil birds have been described, and approximately another 23 extinctions are documented by museum skinspecimens.


More Definitions of Holocene

Holocene means the most recent epoch of the quater- nary period, extending from the end of the pleistocene to the pres- ent.
Holocene means the most recent measure of geologic time period extending from the end of the Pleistocene period to the present.
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present. See WAC 173-351-130 (5)(b)(iii).
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch, at eleven thousand seven hundred years before present, to present.
Holocene. ’ means the most re- cent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleisto- cene to the present.
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene Epoch to the present. Back to Top §258.14 Seismic impact zones.
Holocene means the most recent epoch of the Quaternary period, extending from the end of the Pleistocene to the present. [Comment: Procedures for demonstrating compliance with this standard in Part B of the permit application are specified in §122.14(b)(11). Facilities which are located in political jurisdictions other than those listed in Appendix VI of this part, are assumed to be in compliance with this requirement.]