Re: HOLOCENE (was: Re: Proposal:New Geologic Era)

[brucet@mindspring.com (bruce thompson)]

>On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 Tetanurae@aol.com wrote:
 Once we
>humans have gone the way of the dinos, the question mainly is have we had
>enough impact on the geologic record to warrant the time that we spend
>here as a new geologic era?  Good question, but nothing that can really
>be answered for a long time.

        It depends on if the intelligent, post-human geologist cockroaches
consider asphalt a sedimentary stratum or not.

bruce



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