The current Meghalayan Age began 4,200 years ago and runs to this very day. Each division in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart corresponds to some distinctive change in the strata of Earth.

Earth has a new age: the Chibanian geologic time interval, which took place from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago, thanks to a layer of sediment found on a riverside cliff in southern Japan.

In order to properly identify onshore and offshore sand resources to help with beach replenishment, it is important to know the geologic age of the resources that are going to be used: if the sand is ...

Informally, people talk about our current age as the Anthropocene, melding humans with the lingo of geologic time. And now, there’s a new age with a new name – the Meghalayan.

Ages, epochs, periods, and even eras are often defined by some sort of geologic trauma. The Chicxulub asteroid, for example, pushed the Earth into the Cenozoic Era, and 65 million years later ...