CALABRIAN STAGE

all those rocks deposited worldwide during the Calabrian Age (1,600,00010,000 years ago). The stage's name is derived from the region of Calabria in southern Italy, which has traditionally served as the type district for rocks of this age. The Calabrian Stage encompasses those rocks laid down during the Pleistocene Epoch. As defined in 1985 by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the global stratotype section and point (GSSP) for its lower boundary is the base of the marine clay stones overlying marker bed e in a sequence of marine strata in the Vrica section, about 4 km (2.5 miles) south of Crotone on the Marchesato Peninsula of Calabria.