How about QUATERNARY "...The latest period in the stratigraphic column
0-2my...division of time to separate pre-human from post human
sedimentation..." Penguin Dictionary of Geology (PDG).
Also what about a broad term of TERTIARY, the PDG divides this into
HOLOCENE, PLEISTOCENE, PLIOCENE MIOCENE, OLIGOCENE, EOCENE and PALAEOCENE.
I could go on (but I won't) I have some more refs. at home if we need some
more info. There are probably people on the list who know more about geology
than me.
Martin Newman
Heritage Data
National Monuments Record
English Heritage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|