Welcome to the Meghalayan Age - a new phase in history

BBC ^ | 18 July 2018 | Jonathan Amos

[BenLurkin]

The Meghalayan...runs from 4,200 years ago to the present. It began with a destructive drought, whose effects lasted two centuries, and severely disrupted civilisations in Egypt, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yangtze River Valley.

The Meghalayan Age is unique among the many intervals of the geologic timescale in that its beginning coincides with a global cultural event produced by a global climatic event...

The middle phase of the Holocene will be referred to as the Northgrippian, and runs from 8,300 years ago up to the start of the Meghalayan. The onset for this age was an abrupt cooling, attributed to vast volumes of freshwater from melting glaciers in Canada running into the North Atlantic and disrupting ocean currents.

The oldest phase of the Holocene - the exit from the ice age - will be known as the Greenlandian.

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For the Meghalayan, the spike is epitomised in a perturbation in the types, or isotopes, of oxygen atoms present in the layers of a stalagmite growing from the floor of Mawmluh Cave in the northeastern state of Meghalaya in India. This two-step change is a consequence of weakening monsoon conditions.

"The isotopic shift reflects a 20-30% decrease in monsoon rainfall,"

"The two most prominent shifts occur at about 4,300 and about 4,100 years before present, so the mid-point between the two would be 4,200 years before present, and this is the age that we attribute to the [Meghalayan golden spike]," he told BBC News.

Already the decision to discriminate ages within the Holocene has drawn fire from some scientists who believe the move is premature. They question whether some of the climate shifts used as anchors for the new ages were truly global in their impact.

[bagman]

That’s what I thought that you were implying. My point is that the fact that Mesopotamia was included seems to belie your implication.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[JBW1949]

I don’t think anyone is or has tried to say Mesopotamia is a nation...

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[Redcitizen]

Sorry, Can’t do it.

Too busy running my Ottoman (Sofa) Empire.

:D

[21twelve]

“My point was that you seemed to be choking on the mention of Palestine but not on the mention of Mesopotamia.”

Maybe when a bunch of terrorists want their “country” of Mesopotamia back he will.

[bagman]

If you don’t want the region to be referred to as Palestine, then what term should be used?

[Red Badger]

The Meghan-a-layin' Age?...................

[TADSLOS]

Gold Digging Skank.

[READINABLUESTATE]

:The Meghalayan Age is unique among the many intervals of the geologic timescale in that its beginning coincides with a global cultural event produced by a global climatic event...4200 years ago.

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