Re: New Geologic Epoch

[evelyn sobielski <koreke77@yahoo.de>]

--- Adrienne Mayor <afmayor@aol.com> schrieb:

> On Jan 29, 2008, at 12:22 PM, K and T Dykes wrote:
> 
> <<GAINING GROUND?!? The paper came out this week!
> How can it gain  
> ground if it
> hasn't had time to be evaluated!>>
> 
> My post was intended to report, not necessarily
> support the idea.
> 
> The concept and phrase "Anthropocene" is not new;
> it's been discussed  
> for some time in the geological and scientific
> community.

Crutzen & Stoermer (2000): The Anthropcene. IGBP
Newsletter 41.
http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~air/anthropocene/

Australia has been under significant _Homo sapiens_
influence since 40.000 BC or so. For most of the
world, the Anthropocene is more or less = Holocene.
The more recent cutoff dates are when the process
becomes really conspicuous, not when it starts.


Eike


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