A formal Anthropocene is compatible with but distinct from its diachronous anthropogenic counterparts: a response to W.F. Ruddiman’s ‘three flaws in defining a formal Anthropocene’

Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Martin J. Head, Clément Poirier, Colin P. Summerhayes, Reinhold Leinfelder, Jacques Grinevald, Will Steffen, James P.M. Syvitski, Peter Haff, John R. McNeill, Michael Wagreich, Ian J. Fairchild, Daniel D. Richter, Davor Vidas, Mark Williams, Anthony D. Barnosky, Alejandro Cearreta

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)319-333
Number of pages15
JournalProgress in Physical Geography
Volume43
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2019

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 105205 Climate change
  • 105904 Environmental research

Keywords

  • Anthropocene
  • chronostratigraphy
  • Earth sciences
  • geological time scale
  • Holocene
  • QUATERNARY SYSTEM/PERIOD
  • ICE-AGE
  • CARBON
  • PLEISTOCENE SERIES/EPOCH
  • SOUTHERN-OCEAN
  • HOLOCENE
  • ATMOSPHERIC CO2
  • BEGINNINGS
  • SUBDIVISION
  • CLIMATE

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