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Quaternary
The latest geological period, covering 2 Million years ago to the present, representing the last part of the Cenozoic era. The Quaternary can be subdivided into two epochs; the Pleistocene (two million years to ten thousand years ago) and the Holocene (ten thousand years ago to the present day).
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