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

["Michael D. Miller" <millerm@thunder.indstate.edu>]

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 Pieter.Depuydt@rug.ac.be wrote:

> > Date:          Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:02:28 -0500 (EST)
> > Reply-to:      millerm@thunder.indstate.edu
> > From:          "Michael D. Miller" <millerm@thunder.indstate.edu>
> > To:            Tetanurae@aol.com
> > Cc:            dinosaur@usc.edu, brucethompson <brucet@mindspring.com>
> > Subject:       Re: HOLOCENE (was: Re: Proposal:New Geologic Era)
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997 Tetanurae@aol.com wrote:
> 
> There is some currently held belief that we are now in the middle of 
> a mass extinction (see for example Ward: 'The end of evolution' and 
> Leakey: 'The fourth extinction), that in fact begun with the 
> disappearance of the temperate and arctic zone megafauna.
> I don't want to talk doom, but if things keep going on this way and 
> at this rate, we will mark a very impressive boundary in the 
> geological/fossil record...
> 
I recently got a look at Earth magazine April 1997 and the June issue of 
Discover magazine yesterday and one of them had that topic featured.  
Maybe we are on the edge of a mass extinction.  Time will tell.