Making the case for a formal Anthropocene Epoch: An analysis of ongoing critiques

• Main Authors: Zalasiewicz, J, Waters, CN, Wolfe, AP, Barnosky, AD, Cearreta, A, Edgeworth, M, Ellis, EC, Fairchild, IJ, Gradstein, FM, Grinevald, J, Haff, P, Head, MJ, do Sul, JAI, Jeandel, C, Leinfelder, R, McNeill, JR, Oreskes, N, Poirier, C, Revkin, A, Richter, DDB, Steffen, W, Summerhayes, C, Syvitski, JPM, Vidas, D, Wagreich, M, Wing, S, Williams, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Schweizerbart 2020
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Geology; Anthropocene; Earth System; Geological Time Scale; Holocene; Stratigraphy; GLOBAL STRATOTYPE SECTION; CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CRAWFORD LAKE; CARBON-CYCLE; ICE-CORE; BASE; DEFINITION; SEDIMENTS; MARINE; Crawford; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21240

© 2017 The Authors. A range of published arguments against formalizing the Anthropocene as a geological time unit have variously suggested that it is a misleading term of non-stratigraphic origin and usage, is based on insignificant temporal and material stratigraphic content unlike that used to def...