The wish, need or preference to pin down a precise official start date for the Anthropocene is curious. The boundary between the preceding epochs, the Pleistocene and Holocene, says Encyclopaedia ...

But that label is outdated, some experts say. They argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant ...

While the term Anthropocene has been widely used for many years now, only geologists can officially denote the start of a new epoch. Specifically, experts look for a "golden spike," which is a ...

At a meeting he decided to ask his fellow stratigraphers what they thought of the Anthropocene. Twenty-one of 22 thought the concept had merit. The group agreed to look at it as a formal problem ...

Look inside the nests of Eurasian coots ... that birds are inadvertently creating a stratigraphic record of the Anthropocene, ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. RCC Perspectives No. 3, 2013 Assuming Responsibility for the Anthropo... Crutzen, Paul J. 2002.