Category Archives: Geology readings

“A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None”

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CITATION:
K. Yusoff, 2019, University of Minnesota Press.
 
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ABSTRACT:
Kathryn Yusoff examines how the grammar of geology is foundational to establishing the extractive economies of subjective life and the earth under colonialism and slavery. She initiates a transdisciplinary conversation between black feminist theory, geography, and the earth sciences, addressing Continue reading →

“When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal”

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CITATION:
Zalasiewicz, J., et al., 2015. Quaternary International, 383, pp. 196-203.
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We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this increasingly used unit, whether the presently informal term is eventually formalized or not. Continue reading →

“Efforts to monitor and characterize the recent increasing seismicity in central Oklahoma”

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CITATION:
D. E. McNamara et al. 2015. The Leading Edge, June 2015, pp. 628-639.
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The sharp increase in seismicity over a broad region of central Oklahoma has raised concerns regarding the source of the activity and its potential hazard to local communities and energy-industry infrastructure. Efforts to Continue reading →

“Loess: The Yellow Earth”

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CITATION:
Smalley, I., and Rogers, C. 1996. Geology Today, Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 186-193.
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A wind-deposited silt forming large deposits in China and middle America, loess is the basis of much grade-one agricultural land, and has sourced the building materials for civilizations. Produced largely as a result of Continue reading →

“An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record”

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CITATION:
Corcoran, P.L., Moore, C.J., and Jazvac, K. 2014. GSA Today, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 4-8.
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Recognition of increasing plastic debris pollution over the last several decades has led to investigations of the imminent dangers posed to Continue reading →