[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 …

Formal subdivision of the Quaternary System/Period: Present status and future directions

MJ Head - Quaternary International, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Quaternary System/Period and Pleistocene Series/Epoch were defined in 2009
by the Global boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the Gelasian Stage/Age …

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 …

[کتاب][B] Planetary social thought: The Anthropocene challenge to the social sciences

N Clark, B Szerszynski - 2020‏ - books.google.com
The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium.
Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship …

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, WF Ruddiman… - …, 2021‏ - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
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 …

Subdividing the Holocene Series/Epoch: formalization of stages/ages and subseries/subepochs, and designation of GSSPs and auxiliary stratotypes

M Walker, MJ Head, J Lowe… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The Holocene, which currently spans~ 11 700 years, is the shortest series/epoch within the
geological time scale (GTS), yet it contains a rich archive of evidence in stratigraphical …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The stratigraphic basis of the Anthropocene Event

M Edgeworth, P Gibbard, M Walker, D Merritts… - Quaternary Science …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper outlines the stratigraphic basis of a proposed Anthropocene Event. It considers a
diachronous event framework to be more appropriate for understanding the Anthropocene …

Geographic thought and the Anthropocene: What geographers have said and have to say

TB Larsen, J Harrington Jr - Annals of the american association of …, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how
the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes …