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.

It’s official — you’re living in a new age. It’s called the Meghalayan, and geologists say it's marked by a 'mega-drought' and the collapse of civilizations 4,200 years ago.

They're calling it the Anthropocene — the age of humans. Though most non-experts don't realize it, science calls the past 12,000 years the Holocene, Greek for "entirely recent." ...

Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

This is minute in geological terms but very big in humans terms," says Brown. In the reference text "The Geologic Time Scale 2012" , Crutzen and colleagues lay out three main options for the start ...

The Greenlandian Age began 11,700 years ago and ended with the dawn of the Northgrippian Age. The latest version of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart/Geologic Time Scale is now available!

The geologic record goes back billions of years – 4.54 billion, to be exact – to the oldest minerals on Earth. It shows the evolution of life, the assembly and break-up of supercontinents, and ...

The older you get, the faster the time goes. Our 4.57-billion-year-old planet may know the feeling. After all, some scientists are suggesting Earth has already entered a new age—several million ...

Deciding whether or not we’ve entered a new chapter in geologic history isn’t going to be easy. Normally, scientists use shifting rock layers, fossils, and geochemical evidence to place new ...

The largest is the eon—there are four of those, which are further divided into 22 periods, 34 epochs, and 99 ages. Recently, geologists proposed adding a new geologic age, dating from around 4200 ...

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 ...