Pleistocene

Subdivisions of the Quaternary System
System/ Period	Series/ Epoch	Stage/ Age	Age (Ma)
Quaternary	Holocene		0.0117–0
	Pleistocene	Tarantian	0.126–0.0117
		Ionian	0.781–0.126
		Calabrian	1.80–0.781
		Gelasian	2.58–1.80
Neogene	Pliocene	Piacenzian	aulder
In Europe an North Americae, the Holocene is subdividit intae Preboreal, Boreal, Atlantic, Subboreal, an Subatlantic stages o the Blytt–Sernander time scale. Thare are mony regional subdiveesions for the Upper or Late Pleistocene; uisually these represent locally recognised cauld (glacial) an wairm (interglacial) periods. The last glacial period ends wi the cauld Younger Dryas substage.

The Pleistocene (eften colloquially referred tae as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lastit frae aboot 2,588,000 tae 11,700 year agae, spannin the warld's maist recent period o repeatit glaciations.