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An Age of Trump in the Anthropocene Epoch?

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Stratigraphy is the science of rock strata; in geological terms, this translates to the science of time. But what IS time? Difficult to define, for certain, but most of us can agree that it marks the passage of events. We experience the passage of 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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ABSTRACT:
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 →