Middle Pleistocene (774 ka)
Representation and status
- Color CMYK
- 0 / 5 / 20 / 0
- Color RGB
- R: 255 G: 242 B: 199
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Validity
- Unit is in Use
- Status
- valid formal name
Nomenclature
- Deutsch
- Mittelpleistozän
- Français
- Pléistocène moyen
- Italiano
- Pleistocene medio
- English
- Middle Pleistocene (774 ka)
- Historical Variants
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Mittel-Pleistozän (Keller & Krayss 2010)
Description
- Description
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Die Grenze zwischen Frühem und Mittlerem Pleistozän wurde anhand der Grenze zwischen den magnetostratigraphischen Epochen Matuyama und Brunhes bestimmt (Richmond 1996), welche bei 0,78 Mio. Jahren liegt (vgl. Gibbard et al. 2004, Gibbard & Cohen 2008).
Hierarchy and sequence
- Subordinate units
- Units at roof
- Lower boundary
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The base of the Middle Pleistocene is defined at the Matuyama-Brunhes paleomagnetic reversal, around 0.78 Ma BP (Richmond 1996, Gibbard et al. 2004, Gibbard & Cohen 2008).
Age
- Note about base
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Onset of MIS-19
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Chibanian
- Rank
- chronostratigraphic Stage
- Status
- valid formal name
- In short
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New stage name for the Middle Pleistocene.
- Age
- Mittleres Pleistozän
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Saalian
- Name Origin
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Named after the river Saale (Deutschland).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Status
- informal term
- In short
- Terminal substage of the Middle Pleistocene of NW Europe, between Holsteinian and Eemian, characterised by cold climate (culminating in the Alpine region with the Riss glaciation).
- Age
- Mittleres Pleistozän
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Holsteinian
- Name Origin
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Named after the Holstein region (N Germany).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Status
- informal term
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- Hoxnian (United Kingdom), Likhvinian (Russia)
- In short
- Palynostratigraphic subdivision of the Middle Pleistocene (Ionian) of NW Europe, corresponding to MIS-11 and to the Mindel-Riss Interglacial.
- Age
- Mittleres Pleistozän
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Elsterian
- Name Origin
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Named after the river Weisse Elster (E Germany), a tributary of the river Saale.
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Status
- informal term
- Nomenclatorial Remarks
- Anglian (United Kingdom), Okian (Russia)
- In short
- Substage of the Middle Pleistocene of NW Europe, corresponding to MIS-12 and characterised by a cold climate (culminating in the Alpine region with the Mindel glaciation).
- Age
- Mittleres Pleistozän
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Cromerian
- Name Origin
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Named after the East Anglian town of Cromer (UK).
- Rank
- chronostratigraphy
- Status
- informal term
- In short
- Initial palynostratigraphic subdivision of the Middle Pleistocene («Ionian») of NW Europe, encompassing several glacial/interglacial cycles under a relatively mild climate (Günz-Mindel Interglacial).
- Age
- Mittleres Pleistozän