The Last Gasp of the Anthropocene? • Watts Up With That? : vimarsana.com

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) was established in 2009 to see if there was a way to geologically differentiate an Anthropocene Epoch from the Holocene Epoch. The notion has always been preposterous because the only true difference between the Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene Epoch is the impact of humans on the planet. Otherwise, the Holocene has just been a run of the mill interglacial stage, geologically indistinct from the prior Pleistocene interglacial stages. After thirteen years, the AWG is finally prepared to present an official recommendation for an official Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP), also known as a "golden spike," GSSP's are stratigraphic markers that define the beginning and/or end of a geologic time period.

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