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HOLOCENE (from Gr. iiXos, whole, uacvos, See also: time division which embraces the youngest of all the formations; it is See also: equivalent to the " See also: Recent " of some authors
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The name was proposed in 186o by P
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See also: Gervais
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The See also: 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 See also: man
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The Holocene formations obviously include all the varieties of deposits which are accumulating at the See also: present See also: day: the gravels and alluvia of See also: rivers; See also: boulder See also: clays, moraines and fluvio-glacial deposits; estuarine, coastal and abyssal deposits of the seas, and their equivalents in lakes; screes, taluses, See also: wind-See also: borne dust and See also: sand and See also: desert formations; chemical deposits from saline See also: waters; peat, diatomite, marls, foraminiferal and other oozes; See also: coral, algal and See also: shell See also: banks, and other organic deposits; mud, See also: lava and dust deposits of volcanic origin and extrusions of See also: asphalt and See also: pitch; to all these must be added the See also: works of man
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