Rhodes W. Fairbridge

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BIOGRAPHY

Professor of Geology, Columbia University, 1955–82. World authority on Quaternary history, climate, and processes. Editor of Encyclopedia of Geomorphology; Encyclopedia of World Regional Geology.

Primary Contributions (1)

A detailed geologic time scale chart displaying Earth's history from the Hadean Eon over 4.5 billion years ago to the present, organized by eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages with color-coded columns and corresponding dates in millions of years.

Holocene Epoch

Holocene Epoch, younger of the two formally recognized epochs that constitute the Quaternary Period and the latest interval of geologic time, covering approximately the last 11,700 years of Earth’s history. The sediments of the Holocene, both continental and marine, cover the largest area of the…