Talk:Glacial period
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[edit] Names of glacial events
I have made an edit to point out that the names used in this article are those used in Great Britain, with a pointer to the "Timeline of Glaciation" for other names. As these vary widely from place to place (and probably also ought to be linked to Pluvial/InterPluvial names), this is a necessary caveat.--APRCooper (talk) 14:27, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I've reverted you. The names used on this article are the actual names of the articles on Wikipedia. Some are indeed the names used in Great Britain, but not all of them. ~ UBeR (talk) 19:19, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
OK, I see why you've reverted me. But it is still the case that the names of glacial periods are only valid locally and are not necessarily synchronous with periods elsewhere, so perhaps a note clarifying this should be added. Glacial chronology and stratigraphy is a complex matter; we need to make this clear while retaining the essential information. Ideally we should use ice core or abyssal stratigraphy as the basis for encyclopaedic classification, with links to local stratigraphic units as required. However, that would need a rather extreme tidying up of the articles! --APRCooper (talk) 20:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
