Holocene

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Term: Holocene
Definition: The current part of geologic time. The Holocene epoch began ~12,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene epoch.

Period of time from about 10,000 years ago to today. During this period glaciers retreated because of a warmer global climate. Time of modern humans.  PhysicalGeography 

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