2007-07-08 07:57:09 · 14 answers · asked by steeley 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Era: Cenozoic (also spelled Cainozoic) - last 65 million years
Period: Quaternary - last 1.8 million years
Epoch: Holocene (also called Recent) - last 10,000 years
Some classifications consider the Quaternary to be an Era, and then the Holocene is a Period.
Your question asked which "period" we are in now, so the best answer is Quaternary, but Holocene is also correct - depending on whose time scale you are using..
2007-07-08 08:34:43 · answer #1 · answered by minefinder 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I believe we exist in the end of the Quaternary Period, the later period of the Cenozoic Era. This period basically matches the evolution of the human race, so it started about two million years ago. For about 63 million years before that, the Earth was passing through the Tertiary Period, which came right after the Cretaceous Period, the last period of the Mesozoic Era.
2007-07-08 15:11:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bronx Period
2007-07-10 10:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by Bludnut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are in the Quaternary Period (1.8 mil yrs ago - Present), the second period of the Cenozoic Era. It's named after the Latin word "quatern" (four at a time).
2007-07-08 15:36:45 · answer #4 · answered by SamB12 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Holocene.
2007-07-11 10:26:39 · answer #5 · answered by David 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were in the depressinaceous period..
2007-07-08 14:59:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the depressing period
2007-07-08 14:59:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think this is still called the Iron Age.
2007-07-08 15:17:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
end of the world ?
2007-07-08 15:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by I dont know 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the moment im in the middle of my wife's and its quite stormy and volcanic
2007-07-08 14:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by dr strangelove 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋