Source: – Joseph T Noony / Twitter.
Congrats India!
The International Commission on Stratigraphy has accepted the newest & tiniest geological time scale.The 4200 year 'Meghalayan age'
With a severe 200yr climatic event causing collapse & migrations in Indus valley, Mesopotamia, Egypt etchttps://t.co/lr2grFoYoL
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) July 23, 2018
Would you believe it?
This slice of rock from a stalagmite in Meghalaya is now an international geostandard which defines the 'Meghalayan age'.
The geologically puny 4200 years imprinted into it is the testimony in stone to the rise & fall of the cradles of civilization. pic.twitter.com/YIV1wLw8j8
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) July 23, 2018
"First a warming period, the Greenlandian Age. Then, 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://t.co/tEzenkcSae
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) July 24, 2018
Featured Image Credit -> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/living-new-geologic-age-called-meghalayan
