The Geologic Names Committee met on January 23, 1968 to consider various matters regarding Quaternary nomenclature. Holocene, which has been widely used in Europe in preference to Recent, was one of the matters for consideration. Holocene, meaning “wholly recent,” referring to the percentage of living organisms, originally was proposed as a “stage” following the Pleistocene “stage” by the Portuguese committee to the Third International Congress of 1885 (Morrison et al., 1957).
Recent was first used by Lyell in 1833, and included the Pleistocene Epoch, but the Pleistocene as now used was removed from the Recent by Forbes in 1846...
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