Geologists to pinpoint official birthplace of the Anthropocene in 2022

Whether or not we're in a brand new geological epoch remains to be up for debate, however geologists have nearly determined the place on Earth ought to be the official birthplace of the Anthropocene

Crawford Lake in Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario

Crawford Lake in Ontario, one of many candidate websites to mark the daybreak of the Anthropocene

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An extended-running effort to declare that the worldwide impression of people is sufficient to set up a new geological epoch will come to a head this 12 months – when a choice is made on the most effective web site to formally mark the start of the Anthropocene.

The previous 11,650 or so years type a geological unit of time often known as the Holocene, thought-about a climatically benign epoch within the planet’s historical past that allowed civilisation to flourish. …


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