• 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 ...
    • 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 ...