Überregional bedeutende Literatur (Auswahl)
BENDA, L. (1995) (Hrsg.): Das Quartär Deutschlands. – 408 S.; Berlin (Bornträger).
BRADLEY, R. S. (1999): Paleoclimatology – Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary. – 2nd ed., Intern. Geophys. Ser., vol. 64: 1–610; San Diego (Harcourt Academic Press).
EHLERS, J. & GIBBARD, P. L. (eds.): Quaternary Glaciations – Extent and Chronology, Part I: Europe. – Developments in Quaternary Science, vol. 2a: 135-146; Amsterdam (Elsevier).
EHLERS, J. (2011): Das Eiszeitalter. – 372 S.; Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
GEYH, M. A. & MÜLLER, H. (2005): Numerical 230Th/U dating and a palynological review of the Holsteinian/Hoxnian Interglacial. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 1861–1872; Oxford.
GIBBARD, P., COHEN, K. & OGG, J. (2008): Quaternary chapter 15. – in: OGG, J. G., OGG, G. & GRADSTEIN, F. M. (eds.): A concise geologic time scale. – 184 S.; Cambridge (University Press).
GIBBARD. P. L. & VAN KOLFSCHOTEN, T. (2004): The Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs.– In: GRADSTEIN, F., OGG, J. & SMITH, A. (eds.), A Geologic Time Scale 2004: 441–452; Cambridge (Univ. Press).
GIBBARD, P. & PILLANS, B. (eds.) (2008): Special Issue on the Quaternary Period/System. – Epi-sodes, vol. 31 (2): 202–267; IUGS.
PREUSSER, F., FIEBIG, M. & SPENCER, J. (eds.) (2007): From the Swiss alps to the Crimea-Alpine Quaternary stratigraphy in European context. – Quaternary International, vol. 164–165:1–220; Amsterdam (Elsevier).
LITT, T. (ed.) (2007): Stratigraphie von Deutschland – Quartär. – Eiszeitalter u. Gegenwart (Quatern. Sci. J.), vol. 56 (1/2): 1–138; Hannover.
LITT, T., ELLWANGER, D., VILLINGER, E. & WANSA, S. (2005): Das Quartär in der Stratigraphischen Tabelle von Deutschland 2002. – Newsl. Stratigr., 41 (1-3): 385-399; Berlin, Stuttgart.
PREUSSER, F., HAJDAS, I. & IVY-OCHS, S. (eds.) (2008): Recent progress in Quaternary dating methods. – Eiszeitalter u. Gegenwart (Quatern. Sci. J.), vol. 57 (1/2): 1–252; Hannover.
REY, J. & GALEOTTI, S. (eds.) (2008): Stratigraphy – Terminology and practice. – 163 S.; Paris (Editions Technip).
SIROCKO, F., CLAUSEN, M., SÁNCHEZ GOÑI, M. F. & LITT, T. (eds.) (2007): The climate of past interglacials. – Developm. Quat. Sci., 7:1–622; Amsterdam (Elsevier).
Gibbard, P. L., Head, M., Walker, M. J. C. & The Subkommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy (2010): Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 25 (2): 96–102.
Walker, M., Johnsen, S., Rasmussen, S. O., Popp, T., Steffensen, J.-P., Gibbard, P., Hoek, W., Lowe, J., Andrews, J., Björck, S., Cwynar, L. C., Hughen, K., Kershaw, P., Kromer, B., Litt, T., Lowe, D.J., Nakagawa, T., Newnham, R., Schwander, J. (2009): Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records. - Journal of Quaternary Science, vol. 24, p. 3-17.