Humans have remodeled the Earth so profoundly that in 2000, atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen and biologist Eugene Stoermer ...

We will provide a list of web sites with relevant information. The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our activities, and the time scale for download above, ...

aroused controversy when they voted down a proposal to officially call our evolving geological epoch the Anthropocene. The IUGS decision provoked heated debate within the scientific community ...

Not everyone is convinced that this evidence is enough to warrant designating a whole new epoch. "I'm not sure if something that is ephemeral as a couple of decades can count as a new geological ...

The group agreed to look at it as a formal problem in geology. Would the Anthropocene satisfy the criteria used for naming a new epoch? In geologic parlance, epochs are relatively short time spans ...

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Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Geology Vol. 22, No. 7, Oct. - Nov., 1914 A Summary of the Orogenic Epochs in the ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

The duo suggested that we are living in a new geological epoch. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and modern humans have been around for around a mere 200,000 years. Yet in that time we have ...

Japanese researchers hope that a new geologic epoch covering the present time will be named after Beppu Bay in western Japan, a second such example following the Chibanian Age. Work is under way ...

In ancient China, spring rains were called "as precious as oil" for their vital role in nature's spring revival. Today, a ...