Holocene Epoch

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Introduction
Stratigraphy
- Chronology and correlation
- The Pleistocene–Holocene boundary
Nature of the Holocene record
- Deep oceanic deposits
- Continental shelf and coastal regions
- Other coastal regions
Holocene environment and biota
- Floral change
- Faunal change
- Holocene climatic trends and chronology
- Classical Roman Period
- Late Roman Period
- Post-Roman and Carolingian Period
- The Viking-Norman Period
- “Medieval” Cool Period
- Little Ice Age
- The Industrial Age (1850–1950)

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Also Known As	Recent Epoch • Recent phase

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