Global peak in atmospheric radiocarbon provides a potential definition for the onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Turney, Chris S.M., Palmer, Jonathan, Maslin, Mark A., Hogg, Alan, Fogwill, Christopher J., Southon, John, Fenwick, Pavla, Helle, Gerhard, Wilmshurst, Janet M., McGlone, Matt, Bronk Ramsey, Christopher, Thomas, Zoë, Lipson, Mathew, Beaven, Brent, Jones, Richard T., Andrews, Oliver, Hua, Quan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Southern Ocean; Campbell Island; Bomb Peak
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/476101/

Anthropogenic activity is now recognised as having profoundly and permanently altered the Earth system, suggesting we have entered a human-dominated geological epoch, the 'Anthropocene'. To formally define the onset of the Anthropocene, a synchronous global signature within geological-form...