Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23355391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip L Gibbard (0000-0001-9757-7292, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Martin J Head (0000-0003-3026-5483, Brock University), Michael J C Walker, the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (L-3 Communications (United States)) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 96-102 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Quaternary Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-8179 • E-ISSN: 1099-1417 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/jqs.1338 |
| OpenAlex | W2120348339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 37 |
In June 2009, the Executive Committee of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) formally ratified a proposal by the International Commission on Stratigraphy to lower the base of the Quaternary System/Period to the Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Gelasian Stage/Age at Monte San Nicola, Sicily, Italy. The Gelasian until then had been the uppermost stage of the Pliocene Series/Epoch. The base of the Gelasian corresponds to Marine Isotope Stage 103, and has an astronomically tuned age of 2.58 Ma. A proposal that the base of the Pleistocene Series/Epoch be lowered to coincide with that of the Quaternary (the Gelasian GSSP) was also accepted by the IUGS Executive Committee. The GSSP at Vrica, Calabria, Italy, which had hitherto defined the basal boundary of both the Quaternary and the Pleistocene, remains available as the base of the Calabrian Stage/Age (now the second stage of the revised Pleistocene). In ratifying these proposals, the IUGS has acknowledged the distinctive qualities of the Quaternary by reaffirming it as a full system/period, correctly complied with the hierarchical requirements of the geological timescale by lowering the base of the Pleistocene to that of the Quaternary, and fully respected the historical and widespread current usage of both the terms ‘Quaternary’ and ‘Pleistocene’. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point · Interglacial · Marine isotope stage · Pleistocene · Quaternary · Series (stratigraphy) · Stage (stratigraphy) · Stratotype · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Through Time and Across Traits
Bio- and lithostratigraphy of lower Pleistocene marine successions in western Emilia (Italy) and their implications for the first occurrence of Arctica islandica in the Mediterranean Sea
Chronostratigraphy of uplifted Quaternary hemipelagic deposits from the Dodecanese island of Rhodes (Greece)
Neolithic as a Historical Period and its Eurasian Variants / Neolit jako historické období a jeho podoby v Eurasii
Formal ratification of the subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period)
The Nile Basin
First Peoples in a New World
Early Pleistocene Homo
New fossils from Koobi Fora in northern Kenya confirm taxonomic diversity in early Homo
Formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch
Marker Tephra Layers Indicating the Lowest Part of the Quaternary System Found in the Moroyama Hills and Kawajima Core, Western Kanto Plain, Central Japan
The Quaternary of Poland and its stratigraphic classification
Contemporary research tasks and challenges for Quaternary Sciences
The Uplift of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau and Human Evolution
The Plio-Pleistocene Large Mammal Record of Greece
Faunal Change in Eastern Africa at the Oldowan – Acheulean Transition
Before the Acheulean in East Africa
New insights into the chronostratigraphic significance of fossil plants in Pleistocene continental deposits
A New Mormoopid Bat from the Oligocene (Whitneyan and Early Arikareean) of Florida, and Phylogenetic Relationships of the Major Clades of Mormoopidae (Mammalia
Reconstructing prehistoric demography
Conceptions of time in (paleo)climate science and some implications
Quaternary marine and continental unconformity-bounded stratigraphic units of the NW Sicily coastal belt
Geology of Monte Gallo (Palermo Mts, NW Sicily)
Advances in the Quaternary of Interior Asia
A futurist perspective on the Anthropocene
Holocene climate history of the Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador, Canada) established from pollen and dinoflagellate cyst assemblages covering the past 7000 years
Exploring the myth of Lake Saveh on the Iranian Plateau
Sources of archaeological dacite in northern New Mexico
Approche paléopédologique de l’environnement des hominidés fossiles du dôme de Sangiran (Java central, Indonésie)
The Early Pleistocene human dispersals in the Circum-Mediterranean Basin and initial peopling of Europe
Biochronological scheme of the Quaternary of the south of Eastern Europe and its substantiation based on arvicoline teeth morphometrics
What Does the “Elephant-Equus” Event Mean Today? Reflections on Mammal Dispersal Events around the Pliocene-Pleistocene Boundary and the Flexible Ambiguity of Biochronology
The mid-face of lower Pleistocene hominins and its bearing on the attribution of SK 847 and StW 53
A scenario of human dispersal in the northwestern Mediterranean throughout the Early to Middle Pleistocene
The stratigraphical position and the use of the term Eopleistocene in Serbian geological literature
The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris
Earliest record of Sinicuon in Zanda Basin, southern Tibet and implications for hypercarnivores in cold environments
Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period
Palaeolandscapes of Southern Apennines during the late Early and the Middle Pleistocene
Global chronostratigraphical correlation table for the last 2.7 million years, version 2019 QI-500
New remains of Sinomastodon yangziensis (Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae) from Sanhe karst Cave, with discussion on the evolution of Pleistocene Sinomastodon in South China
Conifer extinction in Quaternary Italian records
Last record of Trogontherium cuvieri (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Pleistocene of China
Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene vegetation and climate changes at the European scale
The site of Coste San Giacomo (Early Pleistocene, central Italy)
Lower–Middle Pleistocene ostracod assemblages from the Montalbano Jonico section (Basilicata, Southern Italy)
Pliocene to Pleistocene palynoflora and vegetation in Italy
Biochronostratigraphy of the western equatorial Atlantic for the last 1.93 Ma
Climatostratigraphy of interglacials in Poland
Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period
Stratigraphy of the Kazusa Group, Boso Peninsula
The Quaternary System and its formal subdivision
The stratigraphy of the Serbian Pleistocene Corbicula beds
Quaternary gomphotheres (Mammalia
Polish Pliocene and Quaternary deer and their biochronological implications
Early Pleistocene leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of Roland Springs Ranch Locality 1 and the rise of North American Quaternary leporines
Plio-Pleistocene correlation and global change
Depositional environment and age of some key Late Pliocene to Early Quaternary deposits on the underfilled Cedrino paleovalley (Orosei)
Palaeobotanical and palynological records from Italy
Early–Middle Pleistocene transitions
Coupling basin infill history and mammal biochronology in a Pleistocene intramontane basin
Early Pleistocene human mandible from Sima del Elefante (TE) cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)
Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya
Dental remains of Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecidae (Mammalia)
Geology/archaeology in action
New World proboscidean extinctions
The Palaeoanthropocene - The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change
| Unique citing works | 67 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,94 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |