Langhian

{{Short description|Third age of the Miocene epoch}}

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| name = Langhian

| color = Langhian

| time_start = 15.97

| time_end = 13.82

| image_map = Mollweide Paleographic Map of Earth, 15 Ma (Langhian Age).png

| caption_map = A map of Earth as it appeared 15 million years ago during the Langhian Age.

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| timeline = Neogene

| formerly_part_of = Tertiary Period/System

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| name_formality = Formal

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| celestial_body = earth

| usage = Global (ICS)

| timescales_used = ICS Time Scale

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| chrono_unit = Age

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| timespan_formality = Formal

| lower_boundary_def = Not formally defined

| lower_def_candidates =

• Near top of magnetic polarity chronozone C5Cn.1n
• Near FAD of the Planktonic Foraminiferan Praeorbulina glomerosa

| lower_gssp_candidates =

• La Vedova, Italy
• St. Peter's Pool, Malta
• Astronomically tuned ODP-core

| upper_boundary_def = Mi3b Oxygen-isotopic event (Global cooling episode)

| upper_gssp_location = Ras il Pellegrin section, Fomm ir-Riħ Bay, Malta

| upper_gssp_coords = {{Coord|35.9139|N|14.3361|E|display=inline}}

| upper_gssp_accept_date = 2007{{cite journal|last=Hilgen |first=F. J. |author2=H. A. Abels |author3=S. Iaccarino |author4=W. Krijgsman |author5=I. Raffi |author6=R. Sprovieri |author7=E. Turco |author8=W. J. Zachariasse |title=The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Serravallian Stage (Middle Miocene) |journal=Episodes |year=2009 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=152–166 |url=https://stratigraphy.org/gssps/files/serravallian.pdf |access-date=26 December 2020 |doi=10.18814/epiiugs/2009/v32i3/002 |doi-access=free }}

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The Langhian is, in the ICS geologic timescale, an age or stage in the middle Miocene Epoch/Series. It spans the time between 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma and 13.65 ± 0.05 Ma (million years ago) during the Middle Miocene.GeoWhen (2007)

The Langhian was a continuing warming periodEdward Petuch, Ph.D. Florida Atlantic University, Department of Geosciences.{{cite web |url=http://www.geology.fau.edu/people/petuch.html |title=FAU Department of Geosciences |access-date=2010-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620072033/http://www.geology.fau.edu/people/petuch.html |archive-date=2010-06-20 }}, Author, Cenozoic Seas: The View From Eastern North America. {{ISBN|0-8493-1632-4}} defined by Lorenzo Pareto in 1865, it was originally established in the Langhe area north of Ceva in northern Italy, hence the name. The Langhian is preceded by the Burdigalian and followed by the Serravallian Stage.