1. Quaternary (Pleistocene)
Glaciations
Modern Humans

3. 0.01 to 1.8 M.Y. ago
During the Pleistocene, repeated glaciations occurred, some of which covered parts of eastern Nebraska. This was the time period that many people have labeled the "Ice Age." The glacial ice that advanced from northern Canada created many of the features we see on the landscape today, such as the Great Lakes.
12,000 years BP

9. Pleistocene Lakes

10. Pasadena Orogeny: 2.0 m.y. to 12,000 b.p.
Pleistocene
Southern California “Coast Range Orogeny”
Part of the Cascadian Orogeny or Alpide Orogeny
San Bernardino Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains, San Jacinto Mountains, Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Ynez Mountains, Transverse Ranges, Channel Islands, Kettleman Hills and Palos Verdes Hills.
Morro Bay, Santa Barbara Basin, Ventura Basin

14. Pleistocene Life Giant Sloth Wooley Mammoths Saber tooth Cat
Giant Moose
Giant Bear

15. Pleistocene Life Megafauna

24. Pleistocene Extinctions: Man or Nature?
Overkill Hypothesis

26. Present (Holocene)
Holocene
Anthropocene

27. Anthropocene
Humans shaping the planet