The term 'Anthropocene'in the context of formal geological classification

PL Gibbard, MJC Walker - Geological Society, London, Special …, 2014 - lyellcollection.org
In recent years,'Anthropocene'has been proposed as an informal stratigraphic term to
denote the current interval of anthropogenic global environmental change. A case has also …

[HTML][HTML] Is 'Anthropocene'a suitable chronostratigraphic term?

E Luciano - Anthropocene Science, 2022 - Springer
Over the past two decades, the term 'Anthropocene'has ignited widespread academic and
public interest. Since 2009, the term has been considered on stratigraphic grounds by the …

The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event

MJ Head, JA Zalasiewicz, CN Waters… - Episodes Journal of …, 2023 - episodes.org
The Anthropocene defined as an epoch/series within the Geological Time Scale, and with
an isochronous inception in the mid-20 th century, would both utilize the rich array of …

The Anthropocene is best understood as an ongoing, intensifying, diachronous event

MJC Walker, AM Bauer, M Edgeworth, EC Ellis… - Boreas, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Current debate on the status and character of the Anthropocene is focussed on whether this
interval of geological time should be designated as a formal unit of epoch/series rank in the …

Is the Anthropocene really worthy of a formal geologic definition?

G Certini, R Scalenghe - The Anthropocene Review, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Scientists are actively debating whether the Anthropocene, the geologic time span (GTS) we
are now living in, should be considered a period, epoch, or age in the geologic timescale …

A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to WF Ruddiman's 'three flaws in defining a formal …

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, MJ Head… - Progress in …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We analyse the 'three flaws' to potentially defining a formal Anthropocene geological time
unit as advanced by Ruddiman (2018).(1) We recognize a long record of pre-industrial …

[PDF][PDF] Are we now living in the Anthropocene?

J Zalasiewicz, M Williams, A Smith, TL Barry, AL Coe… - Gsa Today, 2008 - academia.edu
The term Anthropocene, proposed and increasingly employed to denote the current interval
of anthropogenic global environmental change, may be discussed on stratigraphic grounds …

The 'Anthropocene'as a ratified unit in the ICS International Chronostratigraphic Chart: fundamental issues that must be addressed by the Task Group

SC Finney - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2014 - lyellcollection.org
The proposal that the 'Anthropocene'should be ratified as a unit of the International
Chronostratigraphic Chart/Geological Time Scale deserves serious consideration by the …

[PDF][PDF] The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch

LE Edwards, A Bauer, M Edgeworth… - Journal of …, 2022 - repository.uwtsd.ac.uk
Can the Anthropocene be defined as a chronostratigraphic series with its corresponding
Anthropocene epoch as a formal entry on the Geological Time Scale? Since 2009, the …

Was the Anthropocene anticipated?

C Hamilton, J Grinevald - The Anthropocene Review, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Various authors have identified 'precursors' of the new concept of the Anthropocene, with
most frequent reference made to Antonio Stoppani, Vladimir Vernadsky and Pierre Teilhard …