Editing Holocene (section)

==Geology==
The Holocene is a geologic epoch that follows directly after the Pleistocene'''.''' Continental motions due to [[plate tectonics]] are less than a kilometre over a span of only 10,000 years. However, ice melt caused world [[Marine transgression|sea levels to rise]] about {{convert|35|m|abbr=on}} in the early part of the Holocene and another 30 m in the later part of the Holocene. In addition, many areas above about [[40th parallel north|40 degrees north]] latitude had been depressed by the weight of the Pleistocene glaciers and rose as much as {{convert|180|m|ft|abbr=on}} due to [[post-glacial rebound]] over the late Pleistocene and Holocene, and are still rising today.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6226537/England-is-sinking-while-Scotland-rises-above-sea-levels-according-to-new-study.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6226537/England-is-sinking-while-Scotland-rises-above-sea-levels-according-to-new-study.html |archive-date=2022-01-11 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=England is sinking while Scotland rises above sea levels, according to new study |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=October 7, 2009 |access-date=June 10, 2014 |last=Gray |first=Louise}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The sea-level rise and temporary [[land depression]] allowed temporary marine incursions into areas that are now far from the sea. For example, marine fossils from the Holocene epoch have been found in locations such as [[Vermont]] and [[Michigan]]. Other than higher-latitude temporary marine incursions associated with glacial depression, Holocene fossils are found primarily in lakebed, [[floodplain]], and [[cave]] deposits. Holocene marine deposits along low-latitude coastlines are rare because the rise in sea levels during the period exceeds any likely [[tectonic uplift]] of non-glacial origin.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

Post-glacial rebound in the [[Scandinavia]] region resulted in a shrinking [[Baltic Sea]]. The region continues to rise, still causing weak [[earthquake]]s across Northern Europe. An equivalent event in North America was the rebound of [[Hudson Bay]], as it shrank from its larger, immediate post-glacial [[Tyrrell Sea]] phase, to its present boundaries.<ref name=Lajeuness>{{cite journal |url=http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp/rppdf/e02-085.pdf |last1=Lajeuness |first1=Patrick |first2=Michael |last2=Allard |title=The Nastapoka drift belt, eastern Hudson Bay: implications of a stillstand of the Quebec-Labrador ice margin in the Tyrrell Sea at 8 ka BP |journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences |volume=40 |year=2003 |issue=1 |pages=65–76 |doi=10.1139/e02-085 |bibcode=2003CaJES..40...65L |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040322102239/http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp/rppdf/e02-085.pdf |archive-date=2004-03-22 }}</ref>