• A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Head, Martin J; Poirier, Clement; Summerhayes, Colin; Leinfelder, Reinhold; Grinevald, Jacques; Steffen, Will; Syvitski, James P.; Haff, Peter K.; McNeill, John R.; Wagreich, Michael; Fairchild, Ian J.; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Vidas, Davor; Williams, Mark; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      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 human impacts, but note that these increased ...
    • Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: An analysis of ongoing critiques 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro; Edgeworth, Matt; Ellis, Erle C.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Gradstein, Felix M; Grinevald, Jacques; Haff, Peter K.; Head, Martin J; do Sul, Juliana A. Ivar; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Oreskes, Naomi; Poirier, Clement; Revkin, Andrew; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin; Syvitski, James P.; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Wing, Scott L.; Williams, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
    • Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Williams, Mark; Waters, Colin N.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Palmesino, John; Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi; Edgeworth, Matt; Neal, Cath; Cearreta, Alejandro; Ellis, Erle C.; Grinevald, Jacques; Haff, Peter K.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Price, Simon James; Revkin, Andrew; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin; Vidas, Davor; Wing, Scott L.; Wolfe, Alexander P. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
    • Stratigraphic and Earth System approaches to defining the Anthropocene 

      Steffen, Will; Leinfelder, Reinhold; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Williams, Mark; Summerhayes, Colin; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro; Crutzen, Paul; Edgeworth, Matt; Ellis, Erle C.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Galuszka, Agnieszka; Grinevald, Jacques; Haywood, Alan M.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana; Jeandel, Catherine; McNeill, John R.; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Revkin, Andrew; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Syvitski, James; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Wing, Scott L.; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
    • The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere 

      Williams, Mark; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Edgeworth, Matt; Bennett, Carys; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Ellis, Erle C.; Ellis, Michael; Cearreta, Alejandro; Haff, Peter K.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Revkin, Andrew; Richter, Daniel DeB.; Steffen, Will; Summerhayes, Colin; Syvitski, James P.; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Wing, Scott L.; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Zhisheng, An (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)
    • The Anthropocene: comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Ellis, Erle C.; Head, Martin J; Vidas, Davor; Steffen, Will; Thomas, Julia Adeney; Horn, Eva; Summerhayes, Colin; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Galuszka, Agnieszka; Williams, Mark; Barnosky, Anthony; Richter, Daniel DeB; Gibbard, Philip L.; Syvitski, Jaia; Jeandel, Catherine; Cearreta, Alejandro; Cundy, Andrew B.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Rose, Neil L.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Shotyk, William; Turner, Simon; Wagreich, Michael; Zinke, Jens (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The term Anthropocene initially emerged from the Earth System science (ESS) community in the early 2000s, denoting a concept that the Holocene Epoch has terminated as a consequence of human activities. First associated ...
    • The Geological and Earth System Reality of the Anthropocene 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin; Head, Martin J.; Steffen, Will; Syvitski, James P.; Vidas, Davor; Summerhayes, Colin; Williams, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
    • The Working Group on the Anthropocene: Summary of evidence and interim recommendations 

      Zalasiewicz, Jan; Waters, Colin N.; Summerhayes, C.P.; Wolfe, Alexander P.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Cearreta, Alejandro; Crutzen, Paul; Ellis, Erle C.; Fairchild, Ian J.; Gałuszka, Agnieszka; Haff, Peter K.; Hajdas, Irka; Head, Martin J; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R.; Neal, Cath; Odada, Eric; Oreskes, Naomi; Steffen, Will; Syvitski, James; Vidas, Davor; Wagreich, Michael; Williams, M; Williams, Mark (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)