Posts Tagged ‘geology’

Welcome to the Anthropocene Epoch

dartmoor.jpgGeologists push for dawn of new age.

Has man’s behaviour since c.1800 forced scientists to rethink whether we have already entered a new geological age?

Picture courtesy of Flickr.

Exit the Holocene

The Earth’s geological time scale (image courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey)Humans have so altered the Earth — from carbon dioxide levels to wholesale changes to plant and animal populations — that we’ve created a whole new geological epoch for ourselves, according to research published this week by the Geological Society of America. The authors of the study conclude that Nobel

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