The Anthropocene: Comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, EC Ellis, MJ Head, D Vidas… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science community in the
early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence …

A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch

PL Gibbard, AM Bauer, M Edgeworth… - Episodes Journal of …, 2022 - episodes.org
The Anthropocene has yet to be defined in a way that is functional both to the international
geological community and to the broader fields of environmental and social sciences …

The Anthropocene as an event, not an epoch

P Gibbard, M Walker, A Bauer… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the course of the last decade the concept of the Anthropocene has become widely
established within and beyond the geoscientific literature but its boundaries remain …

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 …

[图书][B] The Anthropocene as a geological time unit: a guide to the scientific evidence and current debate

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, M Williams… - 2019 - books.google.com
The Anthropocene, a term launched into public debate by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen,
has been used informally to describe the time period during which human actions have had …

Anthropocene: Earth System, geological, philosophical and political paradigm shifts

MA Maslin, SL Lewis - The Anthropocene Review, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of the Anthropocene has created a profound paradigm shift within the scientific
community that may well create equally important changes in philosophy and politics. There …

The concept of the Anthropocene

Y Malhi - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene, the concept that the Earth has moved into a novel geological epoch
characterized by human domination of the planetary system, is an increasingly prevalent …

Defining the onset of the Anthropocene

CN Waters, SD Turner - Science, 2022 - science.org
Earth's geological history is divided into chronostratigraphic units that distinguish phases in
the planet's evolution by summarizing complex biotic, geochemical, and climatic changes …

[PDF][PDF] The “Anthropocene” epoch: Scientific decision or political statement

SC Finney, LE Edwards - Gsa Today, 2016 - exploreiowageology.org
The proposal for the “Anthropocene” epoch as a formal unit of the geologic time scale has
received extensive attention in scientific and public media. However, most articles on the …

[PDF][PDF] Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: an analysis of ongoing critiques

J Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, AP Wolfe, AD Barnosky… - 2017 - fni.brage.unit.no
Since the Anthropocene was conceptualized as a new and distinct epoch of Earth history
(Crutzen and Stoer mer 2000, Crutzen 2002), and more specifically since it has been …