Extraordinary human energy consumption and resultant geological impacts beginning around 1950 CE initiated the proposed Anthropocene Epoch

J Syvitski, CN Waters, J Day, JD Milliman… - … Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Growth in fundamental drivers—energy use, economic productivity and population—can
provide quantitative indications of the proposed boundary between the Holocene Epoch and …

[HTML][HTML] Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

CN Waters, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, SD Turner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …

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 …

Candidate sites and other reference sections for the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point of the Anthropocene series

CN Waters, SD Turner, J Zalasiewicz… - The Anthropocene …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We review and compare proposals for 12 reference sections submitted to the Anthropocene
Working Group of the International Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy, of which …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] 中国石笋古气候研究的回顾与展望

程海, 张海伟, 赵景耀, 李瀚瑛, 宁有丰… - 中国科学: 地球 …, 2019 - academia.edu
摘要石笋是洞穴次生碳酸盐的一种, 是由含Ca 2+ 和HCO3 的洞穴滴水滴到洞穴地面后,
水中碳酸钙在一定条件下过饱和析出, 经年复一年沉积形成. 石笋是古气候研究的重要地质材料 …

The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

MJ Head, W Steffen, D Fagerlind, CN Waters… - Episodes Journal of …, 2022 - episodes.org
The Anthropocene was conceptualized in 2000 to reflect the extensive impact of human
activities on our planet, and subsequent detailed analyses have revealed a substantial Earth …

Chinese stalagmite paleoclimate researches: A review and perspective

H Cheng, H Zhang, J Zhao, H Li, Y Ning… - Science China Earth …, 2019 - Springer
Stalagmite is one kind of secondary carbonates formed in limestone caves (speleothem).
After cave water droplets containing Ca 2+ and HCO _3^-HCO 3− drip onto floor, carbonate …

The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals

MJ Head, JA Zalasiewicz, CN Waters… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the
'Great Acceleration'enables precise and unambiguous recognition of the Anthropocene as …

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

D Degroot, KJ Anchukaitis, JE Tierney… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …