GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -We are currently living in the Holocene epoch. The Holocene is a brief flash of time compared to previous epochs and is, in reality, just an interglacial period of the current ice age. All of recorded human history has occurred entirely within the Holocene.

Detailed explanation-2: -Officially, the current epoch is called the Holocene, which began 11, 700 years ago after the last major ice age.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was officially endorsed by the U.S. Commission on Stratigraphic Nomenclature in 1969. The Holocene represents the most recent interglacial interval of the Quaternary Period. The preceding and substantially longer sequence of alternating glacial and interglacial ages is the Pleistocene Epoch.