Meghalayan
| Meghalayan | |||||||||||||||
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| Name formality | Formal | ||||||||||||||
| Name ratified | 14 June 2018 | ||||||||||||||
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| Celestial body | Earth | ||||||||||||||
| Regional usage | Global (ICS) | ||||||||||||||
| Time scale(s) used | ICS Time Scale | ||||||||||||||
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| Chronological unit | Age | ||||||||||||||
| Stratigraphic unit | Stage | ||||||||||||||
| Time span formality | Formal | ||||||||||||||
| Lower boundary definition | 4.2 kiloyear event | ||||||||||||||
| Lower boundary GSSP | Mawmluh Cave, Meghalaya, India 25°15′44″N 91°42′54″E / 25.2622°N 91.7150°E | ||||||||||||||
| Lower GSSP ratified | 14 June 2018 | ||||||||||||||
| Upper boundary definition | Ongoing | ||||||||||||||
| Upper boundary GSSP | N/A | ||||||||||||||
| Upper GSSP ratified | N/A | ||||||||||||||
| Part of a series on |
| Human history |
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| ↑ Prehistory (Stone Age) (Pleistocene epoch) |
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The Meghalayan age is the name given in 2018, by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, to the current age or latest geologic age – or uppermost stage of the Quaternary. It is also the upper, or latest, of three subdivisions of the Holocene epoch or series. This way of breaking down time is based only on geology; for example, it is unrelated to the three-age system of historical periods into which human development is sometimes divided.