Anthropocene epoch proposal rejected - does it really matter?
ALEXANDER W.A. KELLNER
Abstract:As has reported for some time now, several researchers have embraced the idea that we currently live in a time so different from last centuries that we should separate it into a distinct geological time unit. Specialists who fall under the designation of Earth scientists -such as geologists, paleontologists, and geochemists -divide our planet's geological record expressed in rocks and layers according to events that have had an affect on a global scale. Perhaps the best known is the extinction of non-avian din… Show more
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