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You’re living in a new geologic age. It’s called the Meghalayan
The Meghalayan is one of three newly designated time intervals dividing the Holocene Epoch
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Beth Geiger
7:00am, July 20, 2018
 

DRY TIMES  A 200-year drought 4,200 years ago that caused civilizations to collapse across the globe marks the start of the newly designated Meghalayan Age. As seen in this photo from Algeria in 2017, droughts still occur during this ongoing geologic time period.
 
The newly named current geologic age that started 4,200 years ago.

Welcome to the Meghalayan, our geologic here and now. It’s one of three newly designated ages divvying up the Holocene Epoch, a geologic time period kicked off 11,700 years ago by the end of the Ice Age.

First came a warming period, now dubbed the Greenlandian Age. Then, about 8,300 years ago, the Northgrippian Age began with a big chill that gripped Earth for about 4,000 years. Finally, the Meghalayan started 4,200 years ago with a devastating, 200-year worldwide megadrought.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/living-new-geologic-age-called-meghalayan?tgt=nr

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Not a technically true.  The Meghalayan Stage has been defined until the Present -- which is defined as 1950.  We could therefore (likely?) be in a new epoch, the Anthropocene.
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