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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR |
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HOLOCENE (from Gr. iiXos, whole, uacvos, recent) , in geology , the time division which embraces the youngest of all the formations; it is equivalent to the " Recent
Gervais . The oldest deposits that may be included are those containing neolithic implements; deposits of historic times should also be grouped here; presumably the youngest are those to be chronicled by the last man. The Holocene formations obviously include all the varieties of deposits which are accumulating at the present day: the gravels and alluvia of rivers; boulder clays, moraines and fluvio-glacial deposits; estuarine, coastal and abyssal deposits of the seas, and their equivalents in lakes; screes, taluses, wind-borne dust and sand
desert
peat , diatomite, marls, foraminiferal and other oozes; coral, algal and shell banks, and other organic deposits; mud, lava
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