Defining the Anthropocene

2015/03/01 by Simon L. Lewis, Mark Maslin, Mark A. Maslin · 7 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Energy · Environmental Science · #Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Global Energy and Sustainability Research

paper · doi:10.1038/nature14258

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Citations

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• Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
• Tennessee Valley Authority v. Whitman and the Law of Unintended Consequences
• Anthropogenic soils are the golden spikes for the Anthropocene
• History of Ancient Copper Smelting Pollution During Roman and Medieval Times Recorded in Greenland Ice
• Law Dome CO2, CH4 and N2O ice core records extended to 2000 years BP
• Can an Anthropocene Series be defined and recognized?
• The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time?
• Formal definition and dating of the GSSP (Global Stratotype Section and Point) for the base of the Holocene using the Greenland NGRIP ice core, and selected auxiliary records
• Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents
• A sociometabolic reading of the Anthropocene: Modes of subsistence, population size and human impact on Earth
• The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System
• The trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration
• The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives
• The Anthropocene

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• The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch
• Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965
• Understanding the Anthropocene through the lens of landfill microbiomes
• Renewable energy development threatens many globally important biodiversity areas
• Anthropocene [wikipedia]
• Huaynaputina [wikipedia]