The second and final epoch of the Neogene period, spanning 5.33 million to 2.58 million years ago and closing out the period just before the start of the Quaternary. Its early millions of years included the Pliocene Warm Interval, distinctly warmer than today, before global cooling resumed toward its end. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Source Chachani (Wikipedia)
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1. Neogene (Wikipedia)
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During the Pliocene, from about 5.3 to 2.7 Ma, another warm interval occurred, being known as the Pliocene Warm Interval (PWI).
2. Pliocene (Wikipedia)
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The upper boundary was set at the start of the Pleistocene glaciations.
Valdarno (Wikipedia)
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The valley has been renowned since Renaissance for its fossils, dating from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene, including species such as the mammoth Mammuthus meridionalis, and the sabertooth cats Homotherium and Megantereon.
Chachani (Wikipedia)
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Underneath Chachani lies a caldera. During the Pliocene and early Pleistocene, the volcanic group produced large ignimbrites such as the La Joya, Arequipa Airport, and Yura Tuff ignimbrites; afterwards, the volcanic group proper grew in the caldera until about 56,500 years ago.
Wikipedia: Chocolate Hills, Wikipedia
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The Chocolate Hills are conical karst that consist of Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene, thin to medium-bedded, sandy to rubbly marine limestone.
Cuyama Valley (Wikipedia)
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Most of the rocks are sedimentary, and the Miocene-age Monterey Formation outcrops to the south, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre. Pliocene and Pleistocene sedimentary formations occur in the foothills along the south side of the valley as well.
Goose Lake Valley (Wikipedia)
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Its underlying strata were formed by Pliocene and Pleistocene lava flows covered by Holocene sedimentary deposits.
Iles des Saintes (Wikipedia)
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It arose from the recent volcanic belt of the Lesser Antilles from the Pliocene Epoch.
Lassen Peak (Wikipedia)
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For most volcanic centers in the Southern Cascades, one volcano becomes active and normally becomes extinct as another begins to erupt, but at the Lassen locus, the Maidu and Dittmar volcanic centers overlapped during the late Pliocene to the early Pleistocene.
Lesser Sunda Islands (Wikipedia)
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The northern archipelago began to be formed during the Pliocene, about 15 million years ago, as a result of the collision between the Australian and the Asian plates.
Mount Berlin (Wikipedia)
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The volcano began erupting during the Pliocene and was active into the late Pleistocene and the Holocene.
Mount Kenya (Wikipedia)
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Mount Kenya is a stratovolcano that was active in the Plio-Pleistocene.
Nevado del Ruiz (Wikipedia)
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Volcanic activity at Nevado del Ruiz began about two million years ago, during the Early Pleistocene or Late Pliocene, with three major eruptive periods.
Mount Discovery (Wikipedia)
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Pliocene-to-Pleistocene
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