Colonization of the Americas, ‘little ice age’ climate, and bombproduced carbon: Their role in defining the anthropocene

Jan Zalasiewicz; Colin N. Waters; Anthony D. Barnosky; Alejandro Cearreta; Matt Edgeworth; Erle C. Ellis; Agnieszka Gałuszka; Philip L. Gibbard; Jacques Grinevald; Irka Hajdas; Juliana Ivar Do Sul; Catherine Jeandel; Reinhold Leinfelder; J. R. McNeill; Clément Poirier; Andrew Revkin; Daniel De B Richter; Will Steffen; Colin Summerhayes; James P M Syvitski; Davor Vidas; Michael Wagreich; Mark Williams; Alexander P. Wolfe

doi:10.1177/2053019615587056

Colonization of the Americas, ‘little ice age’ climate, and bombproduced carbon: Their role in defining the anthropocene

Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Anthony D. Barnosky, Alejandro Cearreta, Matt Edgeworth, Erle C. Ellis, Agnieszka Gałuszka, Philip L. Gibbard, Jacques Grinevald, Irka Hajdas, Juliana Ivar Do Sul, Catherine Jeandel, Reinhold Leinfelder, J. R. McNeill, Clément Poirier, Andrew Revkin, Daniel De B Richter, Will Steffen, Colin Summerhayes, James P M SyvitskiDavor Vidas, Michael Wagreich, Mark Williams, Alexander P. Wolfe

Institut für Geologie

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Abstract

A recently published analysis by Lewis and Maslin (Lewis SL and Maslin MA (2015) Defining the Anthropocene. Nature 519: 171-180) has identified two new potential horizons for the Holocene-Anthropocene boundary: 1610 (associated with European colonization of the Americas), or 1964 (the peak of the excess radiocarbon signal arising from atom bomb tests). We discuss both of these novel suggestions, and consider that there is insufficient stratigraphic basis for the former, whereas placing the latter at the peak of the signal rather than at its inception does not follow normal stratigraphical practice. Wherever the boundary is eventually placed, it should be optimized to reflect stratigraphical evidence with the least possible ambiguity.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	117-127
Seitenumfang	11
Fachzeitschrift	The Antropocene Review
Jahrgang	2
Ausgabenummer	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019615587056
Publikationsstatus	Veröffentlicht - Aug. 2015

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105205 Klimawandel
105112 Historische Geologie
105123 Stratigraphie

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Zalasiewicz, J., Waters, C. N., Barnosky, A. D., Cearreta, A., Edgeworth, M., Ellis, E. C., Gałuszka, A., Gibbard, P. L., Grinevald, J., Hajdas, I., Do Sul, J. I., Jeandel, C., Leinfelder, R., McNeill, J. R., Poirier, C., Revkin, A., Richter, D. D. B., Steffen, W., Summerhayes, C., ... Wolfe, A. P. (2015). Colonization of the Americas, ‘little ice age’ climate, and bombproduced carbon: Their role in defining the anthropocene. The Antropocene Review, 2(2), 117-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019615587056

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Colonization of the Americas, ‘little ice age’ climate, and bombproduced carbon: Their role in defining the anthropocene

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