Quaternary

However, the International Commission on Stratigraphy has recently decided to stop endorsing the terms Quaternary and Tertiary as part of the formal nomenclature.

Table of geologic time - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Today there is little argument about our ability to trace the broad lines of man's fossil history for some half million years and, controversially, even for two to three million years, almost to the beginning of what is called the Quaternary geological period, of which the last fifteen thousand years are styled the Holocene or Recent epoch.

A Phony Ancestor Zuckerman, Lord 1990

And the bones of man himself appear, extending through what is known as the Quaternary or Pleistocene period.

Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877

Thus it is that Unity, complete in the fecundity of the Ternary, forms, with it, the Quaternary, which is the key of all numbers, movements, and forms.

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

Research published in the Journal of Quaternary Science suggests the 2 degrees Celsius limit of warming deemed "safe" by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and U.N. probably isn't, echoing claims made by NASA researcher James Hansen and climate advocate Bill McKibben of 350. org.

Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010

[For details, see Richard Foster Flint, Glacial and Quaternary Geology (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1971), pp. 84, 315 – 342.]

An Ominous Story 2009

* In order from oldest to youngest, the extinction events considered by biologists and paleontologists to be the most severe in the earth's history are the Ordovician – Silurian extinction event, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian – Triassic extinction event, the Triassic – Jurassic extinction event, the Cretaceous – Tertiary extinction event, and the Quaternary-Holocene extinction event (currently underway).

"I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize." docbrite 2010

Research published in the Journal of Quaternary Science suggests the 2 degrees Celsius limit of warming deemed "safe" by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and U.N. probably isn't, echoing claims made by NASA researcher James Hansen and climate advocate Bill McKibben of 350. org.

Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010

(21 May 2010) * In order from oldest to youngest, the extinction events considered by biologists and paleontologists to be the most severe in the earth's history are the Ordovician – Silurian extinction event, the Late Devonian extinction, the Permian – Triassic extinction event, the Triassic – Jurassic extinction event, the Cretaceous – Tertiary extinction event, and the Quaternary-Holocene extinction event (currently underway).

"I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize." greygirlbeast 2010

Research published in the Journal of Quaternary Science suggests the 2 degrees Celsius limit of warming deemed "safe" by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and U.N. probably isn't, echoing claims made by NASA researcher James Hansen and climate advocate Bill McKibben of 350. org.

Christopher Mims: Everybody Loves Clean Energy, but Nobody Wants to Pay for It -- Except for the Department of Defense Christopher Mims 2010