A practical solution: the Anthropocene is a geological event, not a formal epoch

2021/11/15 by Philip L. Gibbard, Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth +8 · 4 citations
Health Professions · #Indigenous Studies and Ecology

paper · doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021029

openalex publication_date 2021/11/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31

Abstract

Philip L. Gibbard, Andrew M. Bauer, Matthew Edgeworth, William F. Ruddiman, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Dorothy J. Merritts, Stanley C. Finney, Lucy E. Edwards, Michael J. C. Walker, Mark Maslin, Erle C. Ellis. Episodes 2022;45:349-57. https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2021/021029

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• The Anthropocene is best understood as an ongoing, intensifying, diachronous event
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• Anthropocene [wikipedia]
• Geologic time scale [wikipedia]